Water Supply
Glossary subject · 130 terms
- ABS pipe
- Accumulator (bladder type)
- Air admittance valve (AAV)
- Air gap (plumbing)
- Angle stop
- Annual backflow test
- Aquifer
- Artesian well
- Atmospheric vacuum breaker (AVB)
- Back pressure
- Back siphonage
- Backflow
- Backflow preventer
- Ball valve
- Black iron pipe
- Borehole
- Butterfly valve
- Cap
- Cast iron pipe
- Check valve
- Compression fitting
- Coupling
- CPVC pipe
- Cross-connection
- Curb key
- Curb stop
- Dielectric union
- Double check valve assembly (DCVA)
- Drain cock / drain valve
- Drain-and-waste valve
- Drilled well
- Driven well
- Drop-ear elbow
- Dual check valve
- Dug well
- Elbow
- Fernco coupling
- Flare fitting
- Flexible copper tubing
- Float switch
- Float valve
- Flow rate (GPM)
- Foot valve
- Friction loss
- Frost depth (service-line burial)
- Galvanized iron pipe
- Gate valve
- Globe valve
- Groundwater
- HDPE pipe
- Hose bib
- Hose-bib vacuum breaker (HBVB)
- Hydro-pneumatic tank
- Inline filter
- Inside main shutoff
- Iron pipe
- Lead pipe
- Main shut-off valve
- Main supply line
- Mains pressure range
- Meter pit
- Minimum distribution pressure (20 psi)
- Needle valve
- Nipple
- No-hub cast iron
- Non-potable water
- Normal residential water pressure
- Partially closed main shutoff
- PE pipe
- PEX
- PEX manifold
- PEX-A
- PEX-B
- Pipe fitting
- Pipe schedule
- Pitless adapter
- Plastic pipe
- Plug
- Polybutylene
- Potable water
- Press-connect fitting
- Pressure absorber / arrestor
- Pressure gauge
- Pressure reducing valve (PRV)
- Pressure relief valve
- Pressure switch
- Pressure-vacuum breaker (PVB)
- Pump cut-in / cut-out pressure
- Push-connect fitting
- PVC pipe
- Quarter-turn valve
- Reducer
- Reducing bushing
- Repipe
- Rigid copper tubing
- RPZ backflow preventer
- Saddle valve
- Saltwater intrusion
- Schrader valve
- Seattle tap water
- Service line
- Shut-off valve
- Solenoid valve
- Spokane tap water
- Stagnation
- Static water pressure
- Static water pressure test
- Steel pipe
- Stop-and-waste valve
- Surface water source
- Sweat fitting
- Swing check valve
- Tacoma tap water
- Tee
- Tuberculation
- Type K copper
- Type L copper
- Type M copper
- Union
- Vacuum breaker
- Water meter
- Water supply system
- Water table
- Well cap
- Well casing
- Well pump
- Well water
- Whole-house shutoff
- Wye fitting
- Yard hydrant