Glossary

• Accra Agenda for Action
• Appropriate modern technology
• Awareness raising
• Basic needs/Basic services
• Beijing Global Platform for Action
• Capacity building
• Clean technology
• Communications techniques
• Decentralised co-operation
• Demand management
• Economic and financial analysis
• Ecosystem management
• Environmental analysis
• Environmental economic valuation
• Environmental sanitation
• Gender
• Hygiene (or health) education
• Indigenous Technical Knowledge
• Integrated water resources management
• International water law
• Knowledge, Attitude and Practice (KAP) studies
• Marginal cost pricing
• Metering
• Monitoring Indicators
• Non-governmental organisations (NGOs)
• Paris Declaration
• Participation
• Participatory Appraisal
• Participatory Irrigation Management (PIM)
• Participatory Technology Development (PTD)
• Polluter pays principle
• Private sector participation
• Ramsar Convention
• Regulatory systems
• Re-use and recycling of water
• River Basin Organisations (RBOs)
• Social data collection
• Social Impact Assessment (SIA)
• Stakeholders
• Social mobilisation
• Subsidiarity principle
• Tariffs
• Tariff structures
• Transboundary waters
• UN Millenium Development Goals (MDG)
• Virtual water
• Water laws and legislation
• Water-borne diseases
• Water markets
• Water ownership
• Water quality standards
• Water User Associations
• Willingness-to-pay (WTP) surveys