James
M. SymonsJames
M. Symons
The Water Dictionary
In March 2000, the American Water Works Association (AWWA) in Denver, Colorado published a 516-page book, THE DRINKING WATER DICTIONARY. This 8-1/2" by 11" illustrated, hardback reference contained about 12,000 entries from "A-See ampere" to "zwitterion," incuding many common acronyms and abbreviations.
Definitions related to 41 different water-supply topics ranging from "analytic instrumentation" through "health effects" to "water rights" (complete list below) were provided by a panel of 23 professional experts, expanded for the second edition, hence the new title.
| analytic instrumentation | instrumentation |
| analytical methods | legislation |
| chemistry | management |
| computer automation | membrane technology |
| computers | microbiology |
| corrosion | modeling |
| corrosion control | monitoring |
| data handling | protozoology |
| desalting | rates |
| disinfection by-products | regulations |
| distribution systems | risk assessment |
| emergency preparedness | safety |
| engineering | small systems |
| epidemiology | statistics |
| finance | toxicology |
| fluid mechanics | treatment |
| geographic information systems | virology |
| geology | water resources |
| groundwater | water reuse |
| health effects | water rights |
| hydraulics |
The book also included all of the drinking water terms from the 1981 "Glossary - Water and Wastewater Control Engineering," updated and improved as necessary. In addition it contains an extensive list of "Units of Measure" entries, covering both US custamary and SI units, as well as a "Table of Conversion Factors," mostly from US customary to SI units. Started in late-1993, the dictionary is current as of mid-summer, 1998. This edition is now out of print but a second edition was published by AWWA in November 2009.
If a dictionary of this breadth of coverage would be useful to you, to your organization's library, or to both, it can be ordered from AWWA.