The organization which purchases water or power produced under a long term WPA, IWP or IWPP.

Movement of water from a dilute solution to a more concentrated solution through a permeable membrane separating the two solutions.

Excess pressure that must be applied to a concentrated solution to produce equilibrium and prevent the movement of a more dilute solution, through a semipermeable membrane, into the more concentrated solution.

Office of Saline Water.

The location where a storm or sanitary sewer or effluent is discharged into a receiving water body.

(1) A chemical reaction in which an element or ion loses electrons.

(2) The biological or chemical conversion of organic matter into simpler, more stable forms.