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Preferred term

drainage

Definition

  • [GEMET] 1) Removal of groundwater or surface water, or of water from structures, by gravity or pumping.2) The discharge of water from a soil by percolation (the process by which surface water moves downwards through cracks, joints and pores in soil and rocks).

Broader concept

Note

  • [controlled by ] Lars Lundin 20130614

Scope note

  • US LTER controlled vocabulary

Creator

  • herbert.schentz@umweltbundesamt.at

In other languages

Arabic

  • صرف صحي

Bulgarian

  • Отводняване

Chinese

  • 排水

Croatian

  • odvodnja

Czech

  • odvodňování

Danish

  • dræn

Dutch

  • afwatering

Estonian

  • kuivendus

Finnish

  • kuivatus, ojitus, salaojitus

French

  • drainage

German

  • Entwässerung

Greek

  • (απο)στράγγιση

Hungarian

  • drénezés

Italian

  • drenaggio

Japanese

  • 排水

Latvian

  • drenāža

Lithuanian

  • drenažas

Norwegian

  • drenering

Polish

  • osuszanie

Portuguese

  • drenagem

Romanian

  • drenaj

Slovak

  • drenáž

Slovenian

  • odtok, odvodnja

Spanish

  • drenaje

Swedish

  • dränering

URI

http://vocabs.lter-europe.net/EnvThes/21296

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