Water glossaries

A selection of water glossaries & thesaurus in several languages.

• EMWIS Multilingual thesaurus

• EEA multilingual environmental glossary: The European Environment Agency (EEA) multilingual environmental glossary in 24 EEA languages

• ICID Multilingual Technical Dictionary

• EDEN Inland Waters Glossary (EN, DK, FR)

• Water Demand Management Trilingual Glossary of Terms (Arabic, English and French)

• International Hydrology Glossary multilingual tool compiled by UNESCO and WMO
  Glossaire international d'hydrogéologie (Anglais, Français, Espagnol, Russe) (1978) Technical documents in Hydrology, UNESCO, 178 p. Contact: Mr. Pierre Hubert.

• Dictionnaire français d'hydrologie French site by the French Committee of Hydrological science (Comité national français des sciences hydrologiques - CNFSH)
  The online InterWATER thesaurus, compiled by IRC and partners, 2006. (Available in English, French & Spanish)
  IRC Science Glossary                                   

• THE Lexicon - The Health and Environment Lexicon: Multi-language glossary of health & environment terminology.  Available in English/French/Spanish/ Portuguese/German, and it was developed by CEPIS - the WHO/PAHO Pan-American Centre for Sanitary Engineering and Environmental Sciences, and first published in 1995. - The Lexicon , - Le Lexique

• Thesaurus on Hydraulic Engineering (HISPAGUA-CEDEX) 

• ALMA: Arabic Language Multilingual Application (OIEAU)

• Eurostat NewCronos (Water Indicators Definitions).

• Edition 2001 du Thésaurus Eau (OIEAU) 

• Lexique hydrologique pour l'ingénieur en 7 langues (Anglais, Arabe, Arménien, Français, Polonais, Roumain et Russe), téléchargeable sur le site du Cemagref: Dictionary of Hydrological Engineering

• AcquaLinga Water vocabulary in 15 languages, searchable by theme
  AGROVOC thesaurus (FAO), Search

• AQUASTAT Glossary - FAO-

• Glossary of Land and Water Terms- FAO AGL

• FAO Glossary of Biotechnology for Food and Agriculture

• Glossary of Aquaculture (EN, FR, SP, AR, CN)

• FOG - Freiberg Online Geoscience Dictionary (TU Bergakademie Freiberg), Glossary in EN, FR, SP & DT

• Eau France  French water terms provided by the French government

• Glossaire de la Directive Cadre Européenne

• WFD Glossary in French on terms related to the WFD
  - DCE Adour Garonne
  - Glossaire de la Directive Cadre sur l'Eau

• WFD Glossary
  - Glossaire Hydrologique International (Centre d'Informatique Géologique)
  Glossaire du Bassin Ardour-Garonne Regional French site providing general French water vocabulary
  Mediterranean Wetlands Initiative Glossary on English wetlands terms available in an Excel file, plus access to translations:
  Glossary of Mediterranean Wetlands terms
  - A translation of this glossary is available in: English, Spanish, French, and Italian:
  - in Spanish, English, French and Italian

• Glossary of IWRM terminology (html format) used by different disciplines and methodologies and provided by NOSTRUM-DSS /FEEM (Glossary of IWRM terminology in pdf format)

• List of Relevant Water Terms- LoGo Water project

• MEDROPLAN glossary: Drought and water scarcity

• Glossaire en français du Ministère de Ressources en Eau algérien

• Glosario de medio ambiente Spanish terms provided by the Junta de Andalucia

• DEPweb glossary (WORLD BANK)
  Le Lexique 6 langues de l'eau (FR - EN - DE - IT - SP – PO)
  Dictionnaire-Environnement
  Water Quality and Waste Management Glossary 
  Canadian Water Resources Glossary 
  Water Science Glossary of Terms 

• Water Basics Glossary

• USGS Hydrological definitions and watershed glossary

• SAHRA Water Glossary
  Water Words Dictionary

• Illustrated Glossary: Landforms and Bodies of Water

• Glossary of Water related terms
  The WQA Glossary of Terms: Water Quality Glossary (Water Quality Association)

• UN interpreters Glossary of Water and Sanitation

• Safe Drinking Water Glossary
  

• Other glossaries: http://un-interpreters.org/glossaries.html
  The second Multilingual glossary

• Diccionario Aguamarket
• VCT3 (RACEFYN): Vocabulario Científico y Técnico de la Real Academia de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales, 3ª ed., Madrid, 1996 (prólogo)
• U.S Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) Glossary
• GDT - Vocabulaire de l'eau (Office québécois de la langue française, Lexiques et vocabulaires)
• Glossaire IFREMER (Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer)
• Glosario Lenntech
• LINMITER - Lexique de l'environnement (Terminologies des langues latines minoritaires)
• Glossaire SVHAUVERGNE (Ministère de l'Aménagement du Territoire et de l'Environnement)
• HIDRITEC (Tecnología y gestión de recursos hídricos)
• WordNet 2.0 (Princeton University)

• Quelques origines de noms de rivières

	ALMA: Arabic Language Multilingual Application ALMA Database cover the following domains: Substainable Development, Water Substainable Development, Tourism, Ecotourism, Water Resources, Water Geopolitics, Coastal area, littoral, Water legislation, Soils, landscape, biodiversity.
	List of Relevant Water Terms- LoGo Water project This document presents the first version of the list of relevant water terms (WP 9.3.) developed by the LoGo Water project. This has been developed by IRC.
	MEDROPLAN glossary: Drought and water scarcity Glossary of terms and concepts.
	Trilingual water demand management glossary Developed by IRDC in the framework of the WaDImena initiative Arabic, English and French Definitions in English