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Soil and Water Terminology

Published by the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers, St. Joseph, Michigan www.asabe.org

ASAE  ASABE S526.5   March  2025

Keywords: Definitions, Drainage, Ecology, Erosion, Hydrology, Irrigation, Land Resources, Reservoir, Soil, Stream, Sustainable, Water, Wetland

Purpose and Scope

1  This Standard establishes preferred terminology for use in soil and water engineering and defines terms which may not have soil and water related definitions in a desk-top dictionary.

2  Preferred terms and definitions are intended for use in all standards, technical journals, magazines, textbooks, and extension bulletins pertaining to soil and water engineering. Some of the terms are used in other agricultural engineering specialties and may be defined differently in other standards pertaining to that specialty.

3  Some terms and definitions are from the Evapotranspiration Terminology and Definitions (American Society of Civil Engineers Environmental and Water Resources Institute, 2024), the Glossary of Irrigation Terms (Irrigation Association, 2017), and the Glossary of Soil Science Terms (Soil Science Society of America, accessed 2004).

4  This Standard does not cover all of the subdisciplines within the ASABE Natural Resources and Environmental Systems Community. Other related standards include S466.2 Nomenclature/Terminology for Livestock Manure Handling and S292.6 Uniform Terminology for Agricultural Waste and By-Product management.

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