Dec 16, 2012 00:49
11 yrs ago
English term

sand weaning

English to French Tech/Engineering Construction / Civil Engineering
Il s'agit d'un texte sur le paludisme et le paragraphe traite des effets négatifs des activités humaines sur la transmission locale de la maladie.

" Human activities such as irrigated agriculture, dams, sand weaning, road construction and other building projects may inadvertently create significant breeding habitats that can alter the local transmission of vector borne diseases"

D'avance, merci.
Proposed translations (French)
5 +1 extraction de sable
Change log

Dec 17, 2012 10:14: Stéphanie Soudais (X) changed "Field" from "Other" to "Tech/Engineering" , "Field (specific)" from "Other" to "Construction / Civil Engineering"

Proposed translations

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extraction de sable

"... . Mining and quarrying are limited to sand weaning and with the growth in the construction sector, sand weaning is expected to pick-up. There is no mining of mineral ores recorded in Nquthu...."

[http://devplan.kzntl.gov.za/idp_reviewed_2011_12/IDPS/KZ242/...]
Peer comment(s):

agree FX Fraipont (X) : sand winning, rather
2 hrs
"sand winning" does make more sense; still lots of hits for "sand weaning", however weird it sounds!
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