Interwater thesaurus. volume 1: English/Arabic

Abstract

This thesaurus is a controlled and structured vocabulary for use in indexing, storage and retrieval of environmental health information. This volume is bilingual (‎English/ Arabic)‎, the Arabic translation of which is based on Interwater Thesaurus for Community Water Supply and Sanitation of the IRC (‎http://www.irc.nl)‎. The thesaurus is not meant to just satisfy the needs of information and documentation officers, but also is a basic tool for end users to access information in a multilingual mode since it is a complete information storage and retrieval system. In addition to this, it is a tool to assist in Arabicization of environmental health literature