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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... :-)

We are also currently scaling-up to the GLOBAL scale, including information about all 236+ water basins of the world, and all ~189 countries.

The aim is to have wateriki 2.0 fully functional by the end of March 2009, so please do bear with us and check back periodically!!

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FIND KNOWLEDGE

• by Individual Country or Region or by Water Basin (under revison)
• by Key Words or Topic or Concepts / Definitions / Glossary
• How-To...
• Lessons Learned - a compilation of LL from different pages (Projects, Reports, Case Studies) (under revision)

	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 Katy Norman (Sep 08 - present) | contributions) The most active member recently!! Has created a wealth of new content and brainstormed the design of the new Waterwiki 2.0 interface! And many more good souls and hands...

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CONTRIBUTE KNOWLEDGE

Get Started! - The help pages tell you more

• more to come soon...

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WHAT'S NEW ? (CONTENT)

• ALL UNDP WATER PROJECTS HAVE BEEN UPLOADED! Those of other UN agencies forthcoming...
• UN-Water member pages created providing useful information about the resources they each have for you use!
• Updated Country Profile Pages...Regions, Water Basins coming soon....
• 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
UNDP Programme in Europe & CIS: Background | Regional aspects | Methodology | Checklist | Regional Programme | Country Assessments and Projects (Bosnia and Herzegovina | Georgia | Moldova | Tajikistan | Turkey | Ukraine) | Bibliography
WaterWiki-resources: International Conference on the Right to Water and Sanitation in Theory and Practice | 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 | HRBA-Food Linkages
External 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

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 11:31, 19 December 2008 ‎Psou (hist) ‎[85 bytes] ‎Katy.norman (Talk | contribs) (New page: Category:Water Basin Category:Psou Category:Georgia Category:Russia) 11:29, 19 December 2008 ‎Cogilnic (hist) ‎[90 bytes] ‎Katy.norman (Talk | contribs) (New page: Category:Water Basin Category:Cogilnic Category:Moldova Category:Ukraine) 11:12, 19 December 2008 ‎Paatsjoki (hist) ‎[110 bytes] ‎Katy.norman (Talk | contribs) (New page: Category:Water Basin Category:Paatsjoki Category:Finland Category:Norway Category:Russia) 11:04, 19 December 2008 ‎Oulanka (hist) ‎[88 bytes] ‎Katy.norman (Talk | contribs) (New page: Category:Water Basin Category:Oulanka Category:Finland Category:Russia) 10:10, 19 December 2008 ‎Overview map of main transboundary waters in Western, Central and Eastern Europe (hist) ‎[125 bytes] ‎Katy.norman (Talk | contribs) (New page: '''Map taken from UNECE First Assessment on transboundary waters in the UNECE region (2007)''') The ten most recent changes to the wiki 5 January 2009 (diff) (hist) . . WaterWiki:Development/RelatedProjects‎; 12:21 . . (+156) . . Juerg.staudenmann (Talk | contribs) (→Get inspired: ) (diff) (hist) . . WaterWiki:Development/Investigations‎; 12:12 . . (+254) . . Juerg.staudenmann (Talk | contribs) (→Events-extension: ) (diff) (hist) . . m WaterWiki:Development/Investigations‎; 12:09 . . (+1) . . Juerg.staudenmann (Talk | contribs) (→Events-extension: ) 1 January 2009 (diff) (hist) . . WaterWiki:Development/Solutions/CategoriesTags‎; 21:51 . . (-506) . . Mikel (Talk | contribs) (diff) (hist) . . N WaterWiki:Development/Solutions/CategoriesTags‎; 21:38 . . (+2,931) . . Mikel (Talk | contribs) (New page: === Categories and Tags === *http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CategoryLink Creates a link to all the wiki's categories. Would be a nice feature ot have included ==== Solution? ====...) (diff) (hist) . . WaterWiki:Development/Investigations‎; 21:38 . . (-2,933) . . Mikel (Talk | contribs) (→Categories and Tags: ) (diff) (hist) . . WaterWiki:Development/Solutions‎; 21:37 . . (+68) . . Mikel (Talk | contribs)