List of abbreviations used in sanitation

List of abbreviations and acronyms commonly used in the sanitation sector

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

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

H

I

J

K

L

M

N

O

P

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.