List of abbreviations used in sanitation

This is a list of abbreviations and acronyms commonly used in the sanitation sector.

Main article: Sanitation

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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
  • lpcd - Liters per capita per day (liters per person per day), e.g. for daily wastewater flowrate

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  • MBBR - Moving Bed Biofilm Reactor
  • MBR - Membrane bioreactor
  • MCA - Multiple criteria analysis, see Multiple-criteria decision analysis
  • MCDA - Multiple-criteria decision analysis
  • MDA - Mass drug administration
  • MDG - Millennium Development Goal
  • M&E - Monitoring and evaluation
  • MENA - Middle East and North Africa
  • MFC - Microbial fuel cell
  • MFI - Microfinance institution
  • mg - Milligram
  • μg - Microgram
  • MHM - Menstrual hygiene management; closest article is Menstrual hygiene day
  • ML - Megaliter or 1 million liter or 1000 cubic meters
  • MLD - Million liters per day
  • MOH - Ministry of health (see also List of health departments and ministries)
  • MOOC - Massive open online course
  • MOS - Manual of style, see also: MOS for WikiProject Sanitation
  • MoU - Memorandum of understanding
  • MoUD - Ministry of Urban Development
  • MSW - Municipal solid waste

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  • 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

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See also

References

Reference list for entries without Wikipedia articles:

  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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