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- 0 -

0.0000001

equal

0.7 EC

- 1 -

12-month

1997

Act No 108

1998

National Water Act

- 3 -

30 September

October

- A -

Abiotic

Aquatic Ecosystems Ecoregions

Abstraction

According

National Water Act

Act No

Aquatic Ecosystems Bank Storage Baseflow Basic Water Supply Borehole Catchment Estuary Pollution Pristine Reserve Water Management Area (WMA) Water Resource Wetland

Act No 108

1997

Aeration

Zone

AgNO3

Allen

Alluvial Aquifer

Anaphrodesiac

And/or

Lateral Collector Reserve Unconfined Aquifer

Anisotropic

Anisotropy Isotropy

Aquatic Ecosystems

Aquiclude

Aquiclude Confined Aquifer

Aquicludes

Aquiclude Sill

Aquifer

Aquifer System

Aquifer Testing

Aquitard

Aquitards

Aquitard Sill

Artesian Borehole

Attenuation

Available Drawdown

- B -

B

Dug Well Pollution Reserve Resource

Bank Storage

Baseflow

Baseflow Baseflow Index (BFI) Ephemeral Stream Runoff

Baseflow Index

Basic Human Needs

Bieodegradation

Borehole

Borehole Testing

- C -

C

Dug Well Resource

Cacthment

Called

drawdown

Capillary Fringe

Catchment

Changes/fluctuations

Characterise

Characteristics

Groundwater Resource Unit Lithology Resource Surface Water Vulnerability

understanding

Cherry

Colour

including

Components Of Flow Regime

Compressibility

Cone

Depression

Confined Aquifer

Conjunctive Use

Contamination

Contmination

Cycle???is

- D -

D

Darcy???s Law

Darcy's Law

Demineralisation

Denitrification

Depression

Cone

Detached Stream

Deteriate

Dewater

Dewatering

urban/agricultural

Different Formations

Different lithologies

Dioxice

Discharge Rate

Disconnected Stream

Discontinuities

Dolerite

forms

Doline

Drain

Drawdown

called

Driscoll

Aquifer Testing Catchment Confined Aquifer Contamination Darcy's Law

Dyke

- E -

E.g

Earth???s

Attenuation Dyke

layer

parts

Earth's

Fault Perched Aquifer

EC

Ecoregions

Ecosystems/plains

Effluent

Effluent Stream

Electrodialysis

Energy-intensive

Ephemeral River

Equal

0.0000001

Estuary

Evapotranspiration

Evapotranspiration Hydrology

- F -

Fault

Fertilisers

Fissures

Flow Regime

Fluvial

Forestry

Formal definition/Description

Hydrological Year Safe Yield Water Resource

Formation

Forms

dolerite

Fracture

Fracture Flow

Fracture Zone

Fractured Aquifer

Fractured/fissured

Freeze

RA

Freshwater

FW

- G -

Gaining

Stream

Geohydrological

Groundwater Resource Unit Reserve

Geohydrological characteristics

Formation Lithology

Geohydrology

Geosite

Gradient

Grike

Groundwater

Alluvial Aquifer Aquifer Testing Catchment Confined Aquifer Contamination Darcy's Law Groundwater Infiltration

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Groundwater Resource

Groundwater Resource Unit

- H -

H

Alluvial Aquifer pH

Harvest Potential

Head

Heterogeneous

Hierarchal

High TDS

HNO3

Homogeneous

Human-emplaced

Hydraulic Conductivity

Hydraulic Gradient

Hydraulic Head

Hydrogeology

Geohydrology Hydrogeology

Hydrological Cycle

Hydrological Year

Hydrology

- I -

I.e

Infiltration Quaternary Catchment

Icecaps

Immoble

Inc

Including

colour

Infiltration

Influent Stream

Instream

Interacting

Stream

Interdependency

Interflow

Baseflow Interflow

Intermittent Stream

Interstices

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Isotropic

It???s

- J -

JA

John Wiley

Johnston Filtration Systems Inc

Aquifer Testing Catchment Confined Aquifer Contamination Darcy's Law

Joints/fissures

- K -

Karst

Karstic

KNO3

Kromme River

- L -

L/p/d

Lateral collector

Latrine

Layer

earth???s

Leachate

Lesotho

Lithic characteristics

Lithology

Localised

Reserve Spring

Log10

Losing

Stream

- M -

M

Capillary Fringe Darcy's Law Dug Well Sinkhole

M/d

Hydraulic Conductivity (K) Permeability (k)

M2/d

M3/d

M3/km2/a

M3/km2??a

M3/m2/d

Making

pharmaceuticals

Mappable

Measuring

TDS

Meteorologically

Methemoglobinemia

Metre

Mg/l

Freshwater Total Dissolved Solids (TDS)

Minister

Water and Sanitation

Minnesota

Aquifer Testing Catchment Confined Aquifer Contamination Darcy's Law

- N -

NaNO3

National Water Act

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according

NH4NO3

Nitrate

NO3

Non-gravitational

- O -

October

30 September

Optimise

Overland Flow

- P -

Paleo

Paleochannel

Paleochannels

Parts

earth???s

Perched Aquifers

Perched Groundwater

Percolation

Permeability

PH

Pharmaceuticals

making

Phreatic Zone

Phreatophytes

Piezometric

Artesian Borehole Available Drawdown Drawdown Effluent Stream Groundwater

representing

Pipe/channel/trench

Pit/hole

Pollution

Porosity

Effective

Potable Water

Potentiometric

Artesian Borehole Cone of Depression Pontentiometric Surface

Potentiometric Surface

Piezometric Surface Pontentiometric Surface

Prectice-Hall

Preferential Flow

Price

M

Pristine

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Disconnected Stream Effluent Stream Influent Stream

- Q -

Q

Quaternary Catchment

- R -

Recharge

Recharge Area

Recognised

Remediation

Remote Stream

Representing

piezometric

Reserve

Baseflow Index (BFI) Basic Water Supply Catchment Groundwater Resource Unit Reserve Significant Water Resource

Resource

Resource Quality Objectives

Rest Water Level

River

Riverine

Rock

Runoff

- S -

S

Safe Yield

Saline Intrusion

Saltwater Intrusion

Sanitation

Saturated Zone

Saturation

Zone

Schwartz

See geohydrology

See Hydrological Cycle

See potentiometric

Semi Confined Aquifer

Significant Water Resources

Sill

Sinkhole

Snowmelt

Soil

Sons Inc

Source National Water Act

South Africa

Quaternary Catchment Sinkhole

South Africa 1990

Surface Water Resources

South African

Speaking

TDS

Specific Yield

Ss

St Paul

Aquifer Testing Catchment Confined Aquifer Contamination Darcy's Law

Stabilise

Static Water Level

Storage Coefficient

Storativity

Storage Coefficient (S) Storativity (S)

Stream

Gaining

Interacting

Losing

Stream/river

Effluent Stream Influent Stream

Streambed

Disconnected Stream Effluent Stream Influent Stream

Subsurface Water

Sulphuric

Surface Water

Surface Water Resources

South Africa 1990

Sustainable Yield

Swaziland

Sy

- T -

T

TDS

measuring

speaking

Test Pumping

Total Dissolved Solids

Transitionary

Transmissivity

Trigged/caused

Typically Sy

- U -

Unconfined Aquifer

Understanding

characteristics

Unsaturated Zone

Unsustainably

Unwin Inc

Urban/agricultural

Dewatering

US/cm

- V -

Vadose

Capillary Fringe Subsurface Water Unsaturated Zone

Vadose Zone

Vlei

Vulnerability

- W -

W

Water and Sanitation

Minister

Water Cycle

Water Management Area

Water Management Area WMA

Water Resource

Water Services Act

Water Table

Water Year

Well

Well Field

Wellfields

Wellpoint

Wellpoints

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Wetland

WMAs

WR90

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- Y -

Yield

- Z -

Zhang

Zone

Aeration

Saturation