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WASTEWATER INFRASTRUCTURE [1 record]

Record 1 2023-07-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sewers and Drainage
  • Wastewater Treatment
DEF

Infrastructure composed of pipes and pumps that collect wastewater from homes and organizations and transport it to treatment facilities where it is treated prior to being discharged to surface waters.

OBS

wastewater infrastructure; waste water infrastructure: terms and definition standardized by the Canadian Capability-Based Planning Terminology Committee and the Translation Bureau.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Égouts et drainage
  • Traitement des eaux usées
DEF

infrastructures des eaux usées : Infrastructures qui comprennent des tuyaux de conduite et des pompes qui collectent les eaux usées des domiciles et des organisations et qui les évacuent vers les installations de traitement où les eaux usées sont traitées avant d'être rejetées dans les eaux de surface.

OBS

infrastructure d'eaux usées : le terme au pluriel (infrastructures des eaux usées) et la définition au pluriel sont normalisés par le Comité de terminologie de la planification axée sur les capacités au Canada et le Bureau de la traduction.

Key term(s)
  • infrastructures des eaux usées

Spanish

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