List of abbreviations used in sanitation

This is a list of abbreviations and acronyms commonly used in the sanitation sector or more broadly in the WASH sector.

Main article: Sanitation

A

  • AA - Activated alumina
  • ADB - Asian Development Bank
  • ABR - Anaerobic baffled reactor - improved septic tank with baffles, see also Anaerobic digestion and DEWATS
  • ACP - Anaerobic contact process
  • AD - Anaerobic digestion
  • AF - Anaerobic filters, see also Anaerobic digestion
  • AfDB - African Development Bank
  • AfWA - African Water Association
  • AIT - Asian Institute of Technology in Bangkok, Thailand
  • aka or a.k.a. - "also known as"
  • AMCOW - African Ministers Council on Water
  • As - Arsenic
  • ATS - Aerobic treatment system
  • AusAID - Australian Agency for International Development
  • AWF - African Water Facility, an initiative of the African Ministers’ Council on Water (AMCOW), hosted and administered by African Development Bank (AfDB)

B

C

D

E

F

G

  • GAP - Good agricultural practices
  • GHG - Greenhouse gases
  • GIZ - Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit
  • GLAAS - UN-Water Global Analysis and Assessment of Sanitation and Drinking-Water
  • GPS - Global positioning system
  • GSF - Global sanitation fund, closest page is Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council

H

I

J

K

  • KAP - Knowledge, attitude and practice
  • kL (or Kl) - Kilo liters (or 1000 liters, same as 1 cubic meter)
  • KM - Knowledge management
  • Ksh - Kenyan shilling, currency in Kenya
  • KVIP - Kumasi ventilated-improved pit, closest article is Pit latrine

L

  • L - Lakh, used for one hundred thousand in India
  • L - Liter (or litre in British English spelling)
  • LCC - Life-cycle cost, see Whole-life cost or Life-cycle cost analysis
  • LCCA - Life-cycle cost analysis
  • LGA - Local government area
  • LMICs - Low and middle income countries
  • LNOB - Leave no one behind
  • lpcd - Liters per capita per day (liters per person per day), e.g. for daily wastewater flowrate

M

N

O

P

  • PbR - Payment by results
  • PC - Preventive chemotherapy; closest article is helminthiasis
  • PFU - Plaque-forming unit
  • PHC - Primary health centre
  • PIM - Post implementation monitoring; no article yet, see WASH
  • PMU - Project management unit
  • PSP - Public sector participation, see also Public–private partnership
  • PVC - Polyvinyl chloride
  • PPP - Public private partnership
  • ppm - Parts per million
  • ppb - Parts per billion

Q

R

S

T

U

V

W

See also

References

  1. ^ "The Technology Applicability Framework (TAF) - a participatory tool to validate low-income urban WASH technologies - Google Scholar". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2017-03-21.
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