Akvo Sites is a WordPress based system for easy creation and maintenance of websites. Akvo Caddisfly is a water quality and soil quality testing system based on smartphones. Akvo Caddisfly was originally invented by Ternup Research Labs to detect the precedes of fluoride in drinking water. Ternup joined forces with Akvo in early 2014. The Caddisfly system has been extended to work with strip tests and phone-connected sensors as well as the original colorimetric tests. Akvo Lumen is a data visualisation platform and is Akvo's latest product. It is developed in the Clojure programming language. Akvo has gained notoriety for its unique external communication. Bruce Sterling said "It's an open-source sanitation project, and if that isn’t weird enough, they’ve got a Bollywood-parody promotional angle." National Geographic Society reported from World Water Week in Stockholm about the WaterCube, the brainchild of Mark Charmer at Akvo: "Man-on-the-street journalism meets wonky water week. Frenetic water cube workers ushered a steady stream of conference attendees into their fishbowl lounge for quick Flip camera interviews. The close-ups may not be flattering, but it is interesting to hear the stream of consciousness that pours from the mouths of the unprepared and unedited. From high-profile corporate and academic leadership to those implementing projects on the ground around the world, the resulting online mosaic of more than 200 interviews collected over the last two years seems to present a near-complete view of the issues covered over six days of workshops, plenary sessions, and panels." Akvopedia expands into Wikiversity: In 2015, Akvopedia begun loading content into Wikiversity. Akvopedia has served as source content for the Wikiversity portal and the Rainwater harvesting portal. Monitoring water points during drought in Ethiopia: In 2016, Akvo worked with UNICEF to collect data during the worst drought in over 50 years in Ethiopia. Akvo recorded over 80,000 survey responses which were used to help direct emergency resources to the most relevant areas. Supporting Government disaster planning and response systems: Since 2014, Akvo has worked in Fiji, Vanuatu and the Solomon Islands to introduce locally run mobile-based data and asset management tools to improve the quality and availability of data for disaster-related decision-making. For this work Akvo won the innovationXchange award. In 2016, Akvo Flow was used in Fiji to collect data on the extent of the damage caused by Cyclone Winston.