Glossary

Accessible water and sanitation | Affordable water and sanitation | Agenda 21 | Aquifer types | Asessments | Assembly | Bankability | CSO | Carpathian Convention | Cisterns | Clean water | Climate Change | Concepts / Definitions / Glossary | Convention | Convention on Biological Diversity | Council | DABLAS Initiative | Dinaric Arc | Drainage model | Drainage research | Dry Sanitation Technology | Earth Summit | Environment for Europe | Evaluation | Framework Convention | GDP | Glossary/Agricultural water consumption | Governance | Groundwater table | Hashar | IRBM | Improved water resources | Indicators | International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) | International Waters | Irrigation environmental consequences | Irrigation features | Irrigation in Egypt | Irrigation of alluvial fans | Irrigation water management | Laboratory Network | Land drainage | Glossary | MSGP | National Policy Dialogue | PPP | Persistent Organic Pollutants | Persistent Pesticides | Petersberg Process | Primary data | Public involvement | Reporting | River Basin Organizations | River basin councils | Rural Water Supply and Sanitation (RWSS) | Salinity control | Secondary data | Sector-wide Approach (SWAP) | Service provider | Soil hydrology | Soil salinity | Sufficient water | Tariffs | Tertiary data | Tidal irrigation (Abadan) | UN Agency | UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) | WHO drinking water quality guidelines | WSS | Water Footprint | Water Governance | Water as environmental good | Water as social good | Water point | Watershed | Watertable control | Workspace - UNDP Partnership with Coca-Cola |

Absolute humidity | Acceptable daily intake (ADI) | Accessible water and sanitation | Accountability | Accreditation | Acid Rain | Acid rain | Acid water | Acidification | Actinomycetes | Activated sludge | Activated sludge process | Activities | Adaptation activities | Adsorption | Advocacy | Aerobic lagoon | Aesthetic objective | Affiliations | Affordable water and sanitation | Agenda 21 | Agricultural environment | Air gap | Algae | Alkali | Alkaline water | Alkalinity | Ambient temperature | Anaerobic lagoon | Anaerobic pond | Analytical achievability | Anthropogenic | Aqua-privy | Aquaculture | Aquifer | Aquifer types | Aridification | Around the end mixing | Artesian water | Asessments | Assembly | Associated project | Atmosphere | Attached growth system | Back flow | Back pressure | Back siphonage | Back water valve | Background concentration | Background level | Bankability | Baseline | Bathing waters | Belt skimmer | Best available technology | Bicarbonate | Bioaccumulate | Biochemical oxygen demand | Biodegradable | Biodiversity | Biofilm | Biofilters | Biological nutrient removal | Biotechnology | Black water | Blackwater | Blind baffle | Block A Grant | Block B Grant | Block C Grant | Blow-down | Blue green water | Body of water | Bogs | Boil water advisory-order | Boiling | Borehole latrine | Bottled water | Brackish water | Bretton Woods Institutions | Buffer zone | Building drain | Building subdrain | CSO | Capability | Capacity | Capacity Building | Carbon dioxide | Carpathian Convention | Carrying Capacity | Catalyzing | Catchment | Cation exchange | CentraliSed system | Centrifuge | Chamber soakaway | Chemical oxygen demand | Chemical toilet | Chemical water contamination | Chemical water softening | Chief Executive Officer(CEO) | Chlorinated water | Chlorination | Chlorine | Cholera | Cistern | Cisterns | Civil Society | Clarifier | Clean water | Climate Change | Closed water circuit | Closed water networks | Co-Funding or Co-Financing | Coagulated water | Coagulation | Coastal water | Coastal water pollution | Coliform bacteria | Coliforms | Collecting system | Collecting channels | Combined building drain | Combined sewer | Commercial water consumption | Commons | Community water source | Community water tap | Complementarity | Complementary Activities | Concept Paper | Concepts / Definitions / Glossary | Concrete-lined earthen reservoir | Condominium sewerage | Conference of the Parties (CoP) | Confined water | Conflict about water | Constructed wetlands | Consumption of water | Contaminant | Contaminated water | Continental water | Control measure | Control point | Convention | Convention on Biological Diversity | Conventional treatment | Cooling water | Copepods | Corrective action | Corrosive water | Cost Recovery | Cost Sharing | Cost-Effective | Council | Country Driven | Crop coefficient | Cross connection | Cross contamination | Cryptosporidiosis | Cryptosporidium | DABLAS Initiative | Dead water | Deep-layer injection | Deforestation | Deionized water | Dengue | Depuration | Diarrhoea | Dinaric Arc | Direct filtration | Direct recharge | Disc skimmer | Discharge pipe | Discipline | Disinfected water | Disinfection | Disinfection by-products | Disposal | Dissolved air flotation | Dissolved oxygen | Distilled water | Distribution channels | Domestic benefits | Domestic connection | Domestic use | Domestic water | Domestic water consumption | Domestic water meter | Domestically acquired | Double-vault compost latrine | Down pipe | Downstream ecosystem | Downwelling | Drain | Drain cock | Drainage field | Drainage model | Drainage research | Drainage system | Drainage trench | Drift | Drilled well | Drip irrigation | Dry Sanitation Technology | Drying bed | Dual system | Dual system (hot water plumbing) | Dual water supply network | Dug well | Earth Summit | Ebb tide | Ecological Impact | Economic instruments | Ecosphere | Ecosystem | Ecosystem approach | Effluent | Eichornia crassipes | El Niño | Elevated steel reservoir | Eligibility Country | Enabling activities | Endangered species | Environment | Environment advisor | Environment for Europe | Environmental monitoring | Environmental quality standard | Environmental requirements | Environmentally sensitive zones | Escherichia coli | Eutrophication | Evaluation | Evaporation | Evaporative condenser | Evapotranspiration | Executing Agency | Executive Coordinator | Facultative lagoon | Facultative pond | Faecal indicator organism | Fens | Ferrocement water tank | Field capacity | Filter backwash | Filter drain | Filter press | Filter strips | Filtered water | Final water | Finished water | Float valve | Flocculated water | Flocculation | Flood | Flushing | Flushometer valve | Focal Area | Focal Point, Operational | Focal point, National | Fossil fuels | Framework Convention | Free-standing project | Fresh water | Freshwater | Frontier waters | Full Project Grants | Function | GDP | GEF-Assembly | GEF-Council | GEF-SGP | GEF-Secretariat | GEFDOC(GEF Document) | GEFOP -- GEF Operations Committee | GEMS-EAU | GLWQA | Garburator | Genetic engineering | Global Benefits | Global Commons | Global Environment | Global Water Quality Monitoring Programme | Global environmental benefits | Global warming | Agricultural water consumption | Governance | Governance Body | Graywater | Grease interceptor | Green water | Greenhouse effect | Greenhouse gases | Greywater | Grit removal | Groundwater | Groundwater catchment | Groundwater contamination | Groundwater exploitation | Groundwater exploration | Groundwater flow | Groundwater flow system | Groundwater recharge | Groundwater runoff | Groundwater table | Groundwater under the influence of surface water | Groundwater use | Group of 77 | Group of Eight (G-8) | Guideline value | Gulf stream | Gutter | HDI | Habitat | Halocline | Hard water (see hardness, total) | Hardness, total | Hashar | Hazard analysis | Hazard analysis and critical control point (HACCP) | Hazardous Substance | Hazardous Waste | Hazardous waste | Health-based target | Heat engine | Heavy metals | Heavy water | Helminth | Heterotroph | Heterotrophic plate count | Host | Hot tub | Household water management | Household water storage | Household water supplies (see Household water storage) | Household water treatment | Human Development | Human Resources | Human-vector contact | Hydraulic conductivity | Hydraulic gradient | Hydraulic retention time | Hydrological cycle | Hydrolysis | Hydropower | Hygienic water use | IBAs | IRBM | IWRM | Imbibition | Impeller mixing | Impermeable | Impervious layer | Implementation Plan | Implementing Agencies | Impoundment | Improved water resources | Incremental cost | Incrustant water | Indicator organism | Indicators | Indirect recharge | Industrial waste | Industrial wastewater | Industrial water | Industrial water consumption | Infiltration rate | Infiltration trench | Institutional building | Instrument of the Restructured GEF | Intake | Integrated Pest Management(IPM) | Integrated management of water resources | Integrated waste management | Interior waters | Intermediate water | International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) | International Drinking Water Supply and Sanitation Decade | International Waters | International financial institutions | Investment projects | Irrigation | Irrigation environmental consequences | Irrigation features | Irrigation in Egypt | Irrigation of alluvial fans | Irrigation water | Irrigation water management | Joint implementation(JI) | Kyoto Protocol | Laboratory | Laboratory Network | Lack of drinking water services | Lagoon | Lake water collection | Land degradation | Land drainage | Land reclamation | Land rehabilitation | Landless | Larva | Latrine | Glossary | Leach pit | Leachate | Leaching | Legionellosis | Leopold plastic block | Leptospirosis | Leveraging | Lime | Localized irrigation | Log-reduction | Logical Framework Approach (Log Frame) | Low-rate biological treatment systems | MDGs | MSGP | Mains water | Mainstreaming | Maintenance | Manifold | Maximum acceptable concentration (MAC) | Mechanical dispersion | Medium | Medium-Size Grants (MSG) | Migratory birds | Mitigation measures (short- and long-term) | Monitoring | Monitoring and Evaluation(M&E) | Montreal Protocol | Multi-barrier approach | Multilateral | Multiple barriers | National Appropriation | National Policy Dialogue | Natural spa | Nephelometric Turbidity Unit | Night storage water reservoir | Nightsoil | Non Laboratory Partners | Non-Point Source | Non-governmental Organization (NGO) | Non-piped water system | Non-point source pollution | Non-potable water | Nutrients | Occurrence | Off-site sanitation | Offset pit | Oil trap | On-site sanitation | Operational Principles | Operational Programs(OP) | Operational Strategy (OS) | Operational monitoring | Over and under mixing | Overhung latrine | Overland flow | Owner-Operator | Oxidation ditch | Ozone | Ozone Layer | Ozone depletion | PCB | PDF Grants | PH | PPP | Packaged drinking water | Pan | Part per billion | Part per million | Participants | Perforated baffle | Performance targets | Permeable | Persistent Organic Pollutants | Persistent Pesticides | Petersberg Process | Photosynthesis | Pilot Phase | Pit latrine | Plumbing | Plumbing fixture | Point source pollution | Point-of-entry treatment device | Polluter Pays Principle(PPP) | Pollution | Porosity | Port | Portfolio | Potable Water | Potable water | Pour-flush latrine | Precautionary principle | Precipitation | Pressure reduction valve | Primary Coordinator | Primary data | Primary sludge |