| Chinese | English |
| 地下饮用水源 | underground sources of drinking water |
| 饮用水 | drinking water |
| 饮用水 | drinking water Water that is agreeable to drink, does not present health hazards and whose quality is normally regulated by legislation (适合饮用且对健康无害的水，其品质通常受法规管制。) |
| 饮用水供给 | drinking water supply The provision and storage of potable water, or the amount of potable water stored, for the use of a municipality, or other potable water user (为了城市使用或其它饮用水使用者的需求而供应和储存的饮用水，或饮用水的储存量。) |
| 饮用水保护区 | drinking water protection area Area surrounding a water recovery plant in which certain forms of soil utilization are restricted or prohibited in order to protect the groundwater (水处理厂周围的区域，在该区域中限制或禁止某些形式的土地利用以保护地下水。) |
| 饮用水处理 | drinking water treatment The Directive on the Quality of Surface Water Intended for Drinking Water defines three categories of water treatment (A1, A2, A3) from simple physical treatment and disinfection to intensive physical and chemical treatment. The treatment to be used depends on the quality of the water abstracted. The Directive uses imperative values for parameters known to have an adverse effect on health and also guide values for those which are less adverse. There is also a directive which complements the "surface water abstraction" Directive by indicating the methods of measurement and the frequency of sampling and analysis required (欧盟《可饮用的地表水水质指引》中将饮用水根据其处理程度，分成三级(A1，A2，A3)，包括从简单的物理处理和消毒到复杂的物理化学处理。 采用的处理等级，依原水水质而定。 欧盟指引对于已知有害健康的参数，通常采取强制管理；对于危害性较小者，则采取指引式的规范。 欧盟也定有相关指引，制定采样与分析方法和频率，以补充"地表水抽取"指引的不足。) |
| 美国饮用水安全条例 | Safe Drinking water Act |
