Practical Answers
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Urine Diverting Dehydration Toilet (UDDT)
The majority of communities worldwide pollute ground water resources and the environment as a result of flush toilets.
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Solar Thermal Technologies in India
Renewable energy practices in India
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SODIS - Solar Water Disinfection
This document looks at issues surrounding clean drinking water and a simple and low-cost solution called SODIS, where the heat and UV rays from the sun fall on water in plastic bottles, killing patho-genic micro-organisms.
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Solar PV Technologies in Pakistan
Renewable energy practices in Pakistan
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Technical Guidelines for Gravity Goods Ropeway
A rope based transport system for mountainous regions.
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Wheelbarrow
Engineering drawings detailing how to make a wheelbarrow.
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Practitioners handbook for establishing community based early warning systems
This Practitioner's Handbook on Community Based Early Warning System is an effort to put together the early warning learning experiences from the field and communities in Nepal for wider uses for establishment of community based Early Warning Systems (EWS) in flood prone areas of Nepal.
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The Construction of Timberless House Model
The conflict in Darfur, which most analysts judge to have started in 2003 has had a devastating effect on the region. Many of the internally displaced people (IDPs) who were forced to flee their homes have ended up living in make-shift camps around the major cities such as Alfashir, Algenenina and N...
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Seed Multiplication of Improved Open-Pollinated Varieties
Community-based seed multiplication of open-pollinated varieties (OPV) can mitigate against hybrid seed unavailability and its soaring cost thereby increasing access to standard seed for communal areas, especially in drought prone areas.
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Construction and Maintenance of the Solar Fish Drier
This fact sheet details materials, equipment, and basic construction techniques needed for the solar fish drier.