Combined effort
Updated - Monday 23 October 2006
In 1987 IRC published the first edition of the InterWATER thesaurus, a standardised vocabulary for water and sanitation concepts that may be phrased in a variety of ways in sector literature, used for the indexing, storage and retrieval of sector information. It is available in English, French, and Spanish. It is also translated into Arabic by CEHA, the WHO Regional Centre in Jordan.
The InterWATER thesaurus is an improved and trilingual integrated version of an earlier thesaurus: the Intermediate Thesaurus on Community Water Supply and Sanitation for Developing Countries.
Working with partners
The original thesaurus was published in English by IRC and the Water Research Centre (WRc) in the United Kingdom, as a contribution to the International Drinking Water Supply and Sanitation Decade. Representatives from organisations based in the United Kingdom, France, Peru, Jordan, Burkina Faso and Thailand made up a working group to advise on the development of the InterWATER thesaurus.
