InterWATER Thesaurus
The InterWATER Thesaurus can be used for indexing information; for searching or retrieving information; and as a translation tool for English, French and Spanish water and sanitation terms.
Translation tool
23 Oct 06
The InterWATER thesaurus provides you with the opportunity to check the term in the Spanish or the French version of the thesaurus to see what is the equivalent in English and vice versa.
PDF version of the thesaurus
English, French and Spanish version of the thesaurus in PDF format, for printing. -ca 280 pages and 700 KB.
Why use the InterWATER thesaurus?
The InterWATER thesaurus guides you in what terms to use while searching or indexing information on water supply and sanitation. It is available in three languages: English, French and Spanish.
How is the InterWATER thesaurus constructed?
The InterWATER thesaurus is a standardised vocabulary for water and sanitation concepts that may be phrased in a variety of ways in sector literature. Each term appears in alphabetical order and full details are given of other terms related to it.
Combined effort
The thesaurus originates from the collaboration of IRC with organisations from the United Kingdom, France, Peru, Jordan, Burkina Faso and Thailand.
Send your suggestions for new terms
We encourage organisations and individual users to come up with suggestions for new terms.
Glossaries and thesauri
Selection of glossaries and (multilingual) thesauri in the field of water and sanitation. Taken from web sites and publications which are available online.
