Through the invaluable support of the Akvo intern Niharika Joshi, the Akvopedia Sanitation Platform is now also available in Spanish. After the French version was already included last year, this is another step on the road to create a true multi-language platform. We hope it will be useful to Spanish-speaking people around the world.

Above: Niharika Joshi. The Hague, Netherlands, 3 March 2011.

The new Spanish portal contains 54 detailed articles on a wide range of sanitation technologies. The material was adapted from the extremely useful Compendium of Sanitation Systems and Technologies (2008, Spanish version here), written by Elisabeth Tilley and colleagues of Sandec, the Department of Water and Sanitation in Developing Countries at eawag, the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, D√ºbendorf, Switzerland. The authors eventually have plans to make that publication available in Swahili. I’ll look forward to that.

The Spanish version of the Sandec Compendium of Sanitation Systems, produced by Sandec.

Mark Westra is editor of Akvopedia