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We have recently upgraded to "WaterWiki 2.0", with lots of new features and functionalities (see What's new (technically) further down for more...). Not all may be fully functional yet though, but we're working on it... :-) Please do bear with us and check back periodically...

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	WaterWiki Hall of Fame (chronologically)	edit
WaterWiki's Top Supporters (chronologically) Anna (Sep 05 - Aug 07 \| contributions) The mother of WaterWiki: The inspiring mind introducing and driving the Wiki-approach (see also Findings_from_study_on_WaterWiki_by_Anna \| her thesis) Mikel (Sep 05 - present \| contributions) The Father, giving birth to WaterWiki and helping it grow up from a IT point of view... Andrea Cuzyova (Sep 05 - Aug 07 \| contributions) and Juerg Staudenmann (Sep 05 - present \| contributions) The "Wiki-believers and followers" within UNDP (BRC) in the first hours and days - Juerg ever since in fact... ;-) Roxana Suciu (Dec 05- Aug 06 \| contributions) wrote one of the first genuine practitioner-articles on WaterWiki: the Water_management_introductory_kit_for_UNDP_newcomers Mish Hamid (Jan 06 - present \| contributions) Since Jan 06 a regular contributor, but as IW:LEARN web-facilitator even more active involved in "linking it all up" Marcella Fabianova (May - Aug 06 \| contributions) Uploaded the first-ever "How-To" about Communication in Water projects Lara Yacob (Oct - Dec 06 \| contributions) mainly supported the remarkable Water Knowledge Fair 2006 experience write-ups Twinkle Chopra (Apr - May 07 \| contributions) besides quality content contributions conducted analysis on WaterWiki use and needs, i.a. the WaterWiki Client-Survey Anjesh Tuladhar (Feb - Mar 07 \| contributions) helped us solve some important technical issues Chrissie Sieben (Feb - Jun 07 \| contributions) Wrote a couple of high-quality articles Adriana Miljkovic (Mar - Sep 08 \| contributions) Many many new contents, especially focusing on Conflict and Water Frantisek Korbel (Jul 08 - present \| contributions) Installed some nice new extensions, e.g. for YouTube And many more good souls and hands...

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What's new ? (content)

Videos from the 2006 Virtual Water Knowledge Fair now also on WaterWiki:

Extensive bibliography on Rural Water Supply & Sanitation in Tajikistan (by Florian Schnetzer)
Human Rights based Approach Toolkit

Toolkit	A Human Rights-Based Approach to Water Governance	edit
Background \| Regional aspects \| Methodology \| Checklist \| Regional Programme \| Country Assessments and Projects (Bosnia and Herzegovina \| Georgia \| Moldova \| Tajikistan \| Turkey \| Ukraine) \| Bibliography
Related WaterWiki-articles: FAQ: The Right to Water \| General Comment 15 (2002) \| Human Rights principles \| Water and Health \| Equitable Access to Water and Human Rights \| European Union Water Framework Directive \| Essay: What exactly is “The Right to Water”? \| Protocol on Water and Health \| International Decade for Action: Water for Life \| Sanitation
Related resources: COHRE Manual on the Right to Water and Sanitation \| Protocol on Water and Health - Full Document) \| The Human Rights-Based Approach to Development - The Right to Water \| Wolfgang Sachs Sept 03 - Environment and Human Rights

See also other Toolkits

FAQ on International Waters Management topics

Started to split and update the entire Help-section, e.g. an own Editing-page
Hall of Fame - want to know who's behind WaterWiki? (Still growing of course!..)

What's new ? (technically)

Finally: References possible in articles: use <ref>REFERENCE</ref> tags (and <references/>-code at bottom of page)
You can "transclude" whole external web-pages now using the Include website extension (careful though!)
Results-pop-up-while-typing (search as well as category text-input box) Try it!
Video-Extension (YouTube & Co.) - thanks Frantisek Korbel for that! Keep also checking the WaterWiki-Channel on YouTube for more videos...
Translate-function in the navigation side-bar (by Google); an easy on-step translation for the entire WaterWiki!

The five newest wiki pages

16:17, 29 August 2008 ‎HRBA2WatGov/region (hist) ‎[63,995 bytes] ‎Claire.Dupont (Talk | contribs) (New page: {{HRBA Toolkit}} 1. Why a focus in Europe and CIS countries? The situation regarding WSS in Eastern Europe and ECCA countries has been described as critical and deteriorating. Most of t...)
14:32, 24 August 2008 ‎Experience:HOW TO SUPPORT THE GOVERNMENT TO IMPROVE DRINKING WATER SUPPLY AND SANITATION POLICIES (hist) ‎[1,299 bytes] ‎Juerg.staudenmann (Talk | contribs) (New page: It should be noted that the major accomplishment of UNDP project was interfering in ongoing reforms to redirect the policy from focusing on construction and reconstruction of existing wat...)
14:27, 24 August 2008 ‎FAQ:What is integrated water resources management? (hist) ‎[277 bytes] ‎Juerg.staudenmann (Talk | contribs) (New page: ADD INTRODUCTORY TEXT OR ABSTRACT HERE == FIRST TITLE == === FIRST SUBTITLE === == MAIN LESSONS == == References == <references/> == Further resources and links == ADD URLs H...)
21:43, 19 August 2008 ‎Sandbox14 (hist) ‎[3,642 bytes] ‎Juerg.staudenmann (Talk | contribs) (New page: {{Navbox |name = Regions of the world |title = Regions of the world |titlestyle = background:khaki; |list1 = <table style="width:100%; background:transparent;" c...)
13:00, 19 August 2008 ‎Sandbox13 (hist) ‎[980 bytes] ‎Juerg.staudenmann (Talk | contribs) (New page:  <h5>''The five newest wiki pages''</h5><small>{{Special:Newpages/5}}</small> ---- <h5>''The ten [[Special:Recentchanges|most r...)