Urban Drainage. A Multilingual Glossary. English. French. German. Japanese
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Author(s): B. Ellis et al. (Eds)
Publisher: IWA Publishing
ISBN: 190022206X
Format: softback
512pp
Price: £66.75, $113.25, €93.75
Review Date: 19 April 2004
Review: This book gives definitive descriptions of over 850 urban drainage terms: from ‘abatement’ to ‘zone of saturation’. The first part of the book has English, French, German and Japanese glossaries. The second part is an English/French/German/Japanese dictionary of drainage terms. Topics include: hydrology/hydraulics, sewerage, surface water runoff, pollution, receiving waters, ecology, ecotoxicology, best management practices, and urban water resource management.