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Howtopedia Water

1. How to Pump Water?
   1. How to Make a Hand Pump?
   2. How to Make a Foot Pump?
   3. How to Make a Roundabout Pump?
   4. How to Make a Unimade Pump?
2. How to Purify Water?
   1. How to Pasteurize Water with a Plastic Bottle?
   2. How to Test if the Water is Pasteurized?
   3. How to Filter Water with a Sand Filter?
   4. How to Lower Water Turbidity with a Roughing Filter?
   5. How to Purify Water with Moringa Seeds?
   6. How to Distillate Water?
3. How to Harvest Water?
   1. How to Build an Impluvium / Rain Tank?
   2. How to Build a Kund?
   3. How to Build Dams?
   4. How to Build a Groundwater Dam?
   5. How to build a Fog Trap?
4. How to Manage Water Resources?
5. How to Conceive a Canalization System?
6. How to Manage and Treat Used Water?
7. How to Manage and Treat Solid Waste?
8. How to Build Toilets, Watering Points and Washing Points?
   1. How to Protect Water from Pollution?
   2. How to Build Emergency Camp toilets?
   3. How to Build Community Toilets?
   4. How to Build Individual Toilets?
   5. How to Build Dry Toilets?
   6. How to Compost Toilet Waste?
   7. How to Build a Village Fountain?
   8. How to Make a Tippy Tap for Hand Washing?
   9. How to Build a Village Washing Point?
   10. How to Use Washing Water?

Howtopedia Energy

1. Wood / Biomass Power
   1. How to Use Biomass/ Wood Power?
   2. How to Plan a Biomass Digestor?
   3. How to Use Biogas?
2. Water Power
   1. How to Use Water Power?
   2. How to Plan a Micro Hydro-power Plant?
   3. How to Build a Micro Hydropower Plant?
   4. How to Build a "Water Motor"
3. Wind Power
   1. How to Plan a Small Wind Turbine
   2. How to Build a Small Wind Turbine
   3. How to Build a Wind Pump
4. Sun Power
   1. How to Use Sun Power?
   2. How to Plan a Micro Sun-power Plant?
   3. How to Plan Solar Collectors?
   4. How to Build Solar Collectors?
   5. How to Build Solar Dryers?
   6. How to Build a Solar House?
5. Man / Animal power
6. Power Saving
7. Electricity for Remote Areas

Howtopedia Forest

1. How to Help Natural Forest Regeneration?
   1. Orphan Trees Principles
   2. How to Use Seedballs to improve biodiversity?
   3. How to Plant a Tree Nursery?
   4. How to Protect the Forest's Biodiversity?
   5. How to Collect Seeds?

Howtopedia Agriculture

1. How to Fight Soil Erosion?
   1. How to Fight Slopes Soil Erosion?
   2. How to Fight Sandy Soil Erosion?
   3. How to Protect Cultures from the Wind?
   4. How to Restore Soil?
   5. How to Re-vegetalize Land Using Seed Balls?
2. How to Build a Small Scale Irrigation System?
   1. How to Use the Porous Clay Pots and Pipes System?
   2. How to Install Drip Technologies?
3. How to Fertilize with Compost and Organic Matter?
   1. What to Compost?
   2. How to Start Composting?
   3. How to Collect Compostable Matter?
   4. How to Improve Soil Quality with Earth Worms?
   5. How to Grow Earth Worms?
   6. How to Improve Soil Quality with Mycorrhizal Fungi Inoculation?
   7. How to Compost Manure?
   8. How to Improve Soil Quality with Volcanic Ashes and Stones?
   9. How to Prepare Natural Fertilizer?
4. Weeds and Pest Control
   1. How to Control Weeds and Pathogens with Soil Solarization?
   2. How to Protect a Mango Plantation Against Elephants?
5. Different Agriculture Methods, urban agriculture
   1. How to Choose from the Different Culture Methods?
   2. How to Start Permaculture?
   3. How to Start No-Till Farming?
   4. How to Start Polyculture?
   5. How to Start Crop Rotation?
   6. How to Start Zai holes culture?
   7. How to Start a Vegetable Garden?
   8. How to Start a Container Garden?
   9. How to Use Plastic Bottles in your Garden
   10. How to Start Grow Boxes?
   11. How to Improve the Crop Variety and Food Security?
6. Special Cultures and More Ideas
   1. Special Cultures for Tropical Regions
   2. Special Cultures for Arid Regions
   3. Special Cultures for Mountainous Regions
   4. How to Grow Oil Crops
   5. How to Grow Banana
   6. How to Grow Peanuts
   7. How to Grow Neem Trees
   8. How to Grow Moringa Trees
   9. How to Grow Allanblackia trees
   10. How to Grow Fruits and Nuts in the Desert?
   11. How to Grow Marula?
   12. How to Grow White Sapota?
   13. How to Grow Argan?
   14. How to Grow Morongo?
   15. How to Grow Eatable Mushrooms?
7. Cattle, Pork, Rabbits, Poultry Keeping,
8. Bee Keeping and Micro-breeding
9. Fishery and Aquaculture
10. Agricultural Economy
11. Farmer Association and Cooperatives

Howtopedia Food Processing

1. General Principles for Food Security
2. Food Hygiene
3. Traditional Cooking Practices
4. How to Cook Efficiently with Little Fuel
   1. How to Cook with Little Fuel (Wood, Charcoal)
   2. How to Improve your Stove
   3. How to Build a Winiarski Rocket Stove M/$/I/GlobNaodW29-ic2b7416e0153b1d3500000001
   4. How to Make a Cooking Box (Hay Box / Hay bag)
   5. How to make Solar Cookers
   6. How to Improve a Three Stone Fire
5. How to Process Food
   1. How to Grin Grain
   2. How to Steam Rice
   3. How to Dry Fruits, Vegetables, Herbs and Nuts
   4. How to Build Solar Dryers
   5. How to Press Oil
6. How to Store/ Preserve Food
   1. How to Preserve Food by Sterilization
   2. How to Preserve Food with Salt
   3. How to Preserve Food with Oil, Vinegar, Salt Water
   4. How to Preserve Food by Drying
   5. How to Preserve Food by Deep Freezing
   6. How to Preserve Food by Storage Conditions
   7. How to Cool thanks Evaporation
   8. How to Build a Solar Fridge

Howtopedia Health

1. Basic Hygiene Principles
   1. What are the Most Important Hygiene Principles?
   2. How is a Clean Kitchen?
   3. How is a Clean House?
   4. How is a Clean Well / Water Point?
   5. How is a Clean Stall?
   6. How is a Clean Shop?
   7. How To Make Natural Cleaners?
2. Specific Hygiene Principles?
   1. What to do in Case of Diarrhoea?

Howtopedia Ideas

1. What to do with...
   1. What to do with Ashes
   2. What to do with Banana
   3. What to do with Clay
   4. What to do with Clay pots
   5. What to do with Coconut
   6. What to do with Fabric
   7. What to do with Garlic
   8. What to do with Glass
   9. What to do with Honey
   10. What to do with Hot Chillies
   11. What to do with Metal Drum
   12. What to do with Motor Oil
   13. What to do with Paper
   14. What to do with Peanuts
   15. What to do with Plastic Bags
   16. What to do with Plastic Bottles
   17. What to do with Plastic Containers
   18. What to do with Oil
   19. What to do with Sand
   20. What to do with Seeds
   21. What to do with Tin Cans
   22. What to do with Tyres

Howtopedia Small Business

1. How to Start A Business?
   1. How to Start a Business?
   2. How to Get Financial Help?
   3. How to Advertise My Products?
   4. How to Keep My Clients?
   5. How to Improve Hygiene of My Products?
   6. How to Improve Security in My Company?
2. Small Business Ideas: Production
   1. How to Make Leather?
   2. How to Make Earth ware and Pots?
   3. How to Improve Brick Making?
   4. How to Make Paper?
   5. How to Make Soap?
   6. How to Make Ropes?
   7. How to Make Toys?
   8. How to Make Sandals?
   9. How to Make Agricultural Tools?
   10. How to Make Natural Cleaners?
3. Small Business Ideas: Services
   1. How to Start a Laundry shop?
   2. How to Start a Kindergarten?
   3. How to Start a Restaurant?
   4. How to Start a Cleaning Company?
   5. How to Start a Transport Company?

Howtopedia Products

1. How to get...
   1. How to Get Adjustable Glasses?
   2. How to Get Safe Kerosene Lamps
   3. How to Get 0,1 Watt Picopower LED Lamps?
   4. How to Get a Desert Fridge
   5. How to Get a Q-drum?

Howtopedia Construction

1. How to Prepare Construction Materials?
   1. How to Make Bricks?
   2. How to Make Concrete Blocks?
   3. How to Make Pressed Earth-Cement Blocks?
   4. How to Plant Construction Bamboo?
   5. How to Cut Trees into Planks?
   6. How to Make Tiles?
   7. How to Make Roof Tiles?
   8. How to Make Mortar?
   9. How to Make Concrete?
   10. What Are the Alternatives to Concrete?
   11. How to Make Natural Paint?
   12. How to Make Insulating Material?
2. How to Plan a House?
   1. How to Build For Dry Hot Climates?
   2. How to Build For Wet Hot Climates?
   3. How to Build For Dry Cold Climates?
   4. How to Build For Wet Cold Climates?
   5. How to Build For Windy / Stormy Climates?
   6. What are the Principles of House Insulation?
   7. What are the Principles of Earthquake Resistant Constructions?
   8. How to Define the Program of the Building?
   9. How to Organize the Plan of the House?
   10. What are Reasonable Span of Various Materials
   11. How Much Will the House Cost?
   12. How to Build a House With or Without Construction Compagny?
3. How to Build a Brick House?
   1. How to Build a Brick Wall?
   2. How to Build Scaffoldings for Brick Constructions?
   3. How to Build a Floor?
   4. How to Build Stairs?
   5. How to Build a Roof?
   6. How to Build a Brick Cupola?
   7. How to Build a Brick Vault?
4. How to Build an Earth House?
   1. How to Build a Earth Wall?
   2. How to Build Scaffoldings for Earth Constructions?
   3. How to Build a Floor?
   4. How to Build Stairs?
   5. How to Build a Roof?
   6. How to Build a Cupola?
   7. How to Build a Vault?
5. How to Build a Wood House?
   1. How to Build a Wall?
   2. How to Build Scaffoldings and Help Constructions?
   3. How to Build a Wood Floor?
   4. How to Build a Wood Roof?
   5. How to Build Wood Stairs?
6. How to Build a Straw House?
7. How to Build a Bamboo House?
8. How to Build a House out of...?
   1. How to Build a House out of Corrugated Metal?
   2. How to Build a House out of Glass Bottles?
   3. How to Build a House out of Aluminium Bottles?
9. How to Build...?
   1. How to Build a Retaining Wall?
   2. How to Build a Road?
   3. How to Build a Stall?
   4. How to Build a Well?
   5. How to Build a Water Tank?
   6. How to Build a Toilet?

Howtopedia Transportation

1. Boats
2. Bicycles
3. Carts
4. Animal Powered
5. Man Powered

Howtopedia Community

1. Why Start a Neighbourhood Association?
   1. How to Start a Neighbourhood Association?
   2. How to Encourage New Projects in the Neighbourhood?
   3. How to Organize Events in the Neighbourhood?
   4. How to Start a Neighbourhood Information Paper / Centre?
   5. How to Start a Neighbourhood Kindergarten?
   6. How to Start Neighbourhood Services?
   7. How to Start a Community Seed Bank?
   8. How to Collect the Knowledge of the Community?
2. Community Events Ideas
   1. Neighbourhood Fairs
   2. The "I Can Teach You That, What Can You Teach Me" Fair
   3. The Beautiful Street Competition
   4. The Beautiful Shop Competition