My colleague Max is completing a translation Portuguese-English about
water resources in Latin America. We would like to ask confirmation
from someone "over there" who is familiar with this terminology:
1) Is it correct to say "hydrographic basin"? Or "hydrographic river
basin"? or should it be hydrological basin? or hydrological river
basin?
2) What is the difference between a water basin and a river basin?
3) What is the difference between a river basin and a hydrographic
basin?
4) Is there such a thing as "hydrological companies, or are they all
water companies?
5) Is it correct to call a climatic zone "the torrid zone?"(I`m talking
about GEOGRAPHY here!!!)
This document will be presented at a congress on water resources, so it
is important that it contain the correct teminology....
Thank you all for your help...
Marsha
Instituto de Permacultura da Bahia
Brazil
Water resources-- help on terminology,
Marsha Hanzi, 11/19/1998