Glossary Terms
- Abatement
- Accreditation
- Acquisition
- Addendums
- Adherence
- Advised
- Aerators
- Aggregate
- Agricultural
- Agronomic
- Aldermen
- Alkaline
- Amalgam
- Anaerobic
- Appropriation
- Arborists
- Ascertain
- Asphalt
- Asphyxiate
- Audits
- Backsiphonage
- Biosolids
- Bituminous
- Calibration
- Cautioned
- Ceded
- Chlamydia
- City Ordinances
- Cognoscente
- Collector
- Commissioners
- Communicable
- Compliance
- Comprehensive
- Conjuction
- Consequential
- Constituents
- Contaminants
- Contraception
- Defamatory
- Defects
- Developing
- Diligently
- Discrepancies
- Disputes
- Division
- Efficiency
- Effluent
- Emulsified
- Entrant
- Erratic
- Establishment
- Evaluate
- Exploit
- Fiscal
- Fraudulent
- Gonorrhea
- Hazardous
- Hazards
- HBI
- HEPA
- Hepatitis
- Herpes
- Homesteads
- Hypodermic Needles
- Impairment
- Impervious
- Implementation
- Incubate
- Indemnify
- Inflammable
- Infrastructure
- Inherently
- Initiatives
- Instances
- Insurers
- Intellectual
- Interceptor
- Interconnectedness
- Interfaces
- Intergovernmental
- Interventions
- Investment
- Irrigation
- Jurisdiction
- Lancets
- Lateral
- Leachate
- Leveraging
- Liaison
- Litigation
- Macadam
- Monetary
- Money Forfeiture
- Municipality
- Mycoplasma Genitalium
- Non-potable
- Nuisance
- Operations
- Ordinance
- Osmosis
- Parcel
- Pathogen
- Penalties
- Pfp
- Philosophy
- Phosphate
- Phosphorus
- Potable
- Prejudice
- Proactively
- Proceedings
- Promulgated
- Psc
- Pursuant
- Quarantine
- Recreation
- Regulations
- Reimburse
- Remediation
- Requirements
- Resilience
- Resolutions
- Revolutionize
- SCADA
- Sclerosis
- Sediment
- Sedimentation
- Solvents
- Spigot
- Standardized
- Stipulate
- Stringent
- Structural
- Subdomains
- Subsequent
- Substances
- Syphilis
- Threshing
- Trichomoniasis
- Unconventional
- Unoccupied
- Viscous
- Volatile
- Warrants
- WPDES
Definition
The reversal of water flow in a piping system caused by negative pressure, or a vacuum, in the supply pipes.
