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.
Glossary Rural Water Supply & Sanitation
21 Aug 07
In: World Bank Rural Water Supply & Sanitation Toolkit for multi-sector projects.
Glossary Safe Use of Wastewater, Excreta and Greywater
21 Aug 07
Terms used in WHO Guidelines for the safe use of wastewater, excreta and greywater. Volume 1: Policy and regulatory aspects. See p. 95-100
Glossary Sanitation and Hygiene Promotion
21 Aug 07
p. vi-vii, in: WSSCC and WHO (2005). Sanitation and hygiene promotion : programming guide. Geneva, Switzerland, World Health Organization. – viii, 84 p. : 23 boxes, 7 fig., 18 tab.- Includes references and glossary
Glossary Slow Sand Filters
21 Aug 07
Published on the water-e website, a joint initiative of the Centre for Environmental Health Engineering (CEHE) at the University of Surrey, and RWE Thames Water.
Glossary Wastewater Management
21 Aug 07
In: UNEP (2004). Guidelines on municipal wastewater management. -Version 3. - The Hague, The Netherlands, UNEP GPA. - xiv, 92 p. : 40 boxes, 4 checklists, 4 fig., 5 tab. - 24 ref. - Glossary: p. xi-xiv
Health and Environment Lexicon
21 Aug 07
On-line searchable database containing glossary information with multi-language terminology equivalence. It builds on a multilingual glossary developed by CEPIS, the WHO/PAHO Pan-American Centre for Sanitary Engineering and Environmental Sciences.
Hygiene promotion glossary
21 Aug 07
Definition of health, health behaviour, physical clue, reliability, and validity. By IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre.
International Glossary of Hydrology
21 Aug 07
Experimental version containing narrow terms in 15 languages: Arabic, German, English, Italian, Spanish, French, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovenian, Turkish, Hindi, Japanese and Chinese.
InterWATER Thesaurus
21 Aug 07
Thesaurus of the IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre. It 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. The thesaurus originates from the collaboration of IRC with organisations from the United Kingdom, France, Peru, Jordan, Burkina Faso and Thailand.
POETRI : glossary of terms on community water supply and sanitation
Large file [4.6 MB] !
Published in 1983 by IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre.
002_83PO_18102.PDF (4.6 MB)
