French: bornes fontaines prioritairesEnglish translation: priority access stand-pipes /stand-pipes with priority access (eg to children, women etc...) 
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| GLOSSARY ENTRY (DERIVED FROM QUESTION BELOW) | | French term or phrase: | bornes fontaines prioritaires | | English translation: | priority access stand-pipes /stand-pipes with priority access (eg to children, women etc...) | | Entered by: | xxxdf49f |
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Tech/Engineering - Environment & Ecology | | French term or phrase: bornes fontaines prioritaires | It's the 'prioritaires' that's bugging me 'priority street fountains' doesn't sound right in English. Any ideas much appreciated.
a permis l'access a l'eau potable grace a des operations de branchements sociaux et aux bornes fontaines prioritaires. |
| | Clarification request(s) and responseAndy THEODOROU: 8:24am Jun 2, 2006: 'priority street fountains' sounds OK to me - why does it bother you?
an alternative might be highest priority street fountains
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juliebarba: 8:56am Jun 2, 2006: It would bother me because I wouldn't know what it meant! -
reubenius: 8:59am Jun 2, 2006: I assume it means 'street fountains in areas where access to clean water is a priority', but can't find a neat way of expressing it.
Sandra Petch: 12:28pm Jun 2, 2006: How about "fountains in priority areas/neighbourhoods"? -
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| | stand-pipes with priority access / priority access stand-pipes | Explanation:
the idea is that women and children are given priority access before others like vendors who collect water from the public standpipes to sell it.
borne-fontaine = stand-pipe
pour info détaillé voir:
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children to obtain priority access, even when. women have been queuing as long as two hours. ... taps each); there are also three inactive standpipes. ...
www.unhabitat.org/mediacentre/documents/ WWF/Watsan%20box%204%20a%20b%20fin.pdf - Pages similaires
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Note added at 8 hrs (2006-06-02 16:10:39 GMT)
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soory, link doesn't work - here it is again
http://www.unhabitat.org/mediacentre/documents/WWF/Watsan%20...
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Note added at 5 days (2006-06-07 11:38:42 GMT) Post-grading
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ce qui est "prioritaire" ou "priorité" c'est l'accès à ces bornes-fontaines pour les populations les plus vulnérables (enfants, femmes vs. les marchands de rue qui tirent l'eau mise à disposition gratuite de la population, pour la revendre plus loin) |
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xxxdf49f
France
| Note from asker to answererThank you all -you gave me a lot of food for thought. I'm going to go with 'communal stand-pipes in priority areas' -a combination of df49f's answers and Sandra's note.
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| key location street fountains
Explanation:
just a guess really ... I imagine they're talking about prioritaires in terms of where they are placed ...
|  suezen
France
Native speaker of:  English
PRO pts in category: 26
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| High priority water fountains
Explanation:
Avant l'intervention du PAIQ, le quartier était desservi en eau potable par deux bornes fontaines à peine fonctionnelles et positionnées à ses abords immédiats. Une ONG, opérateur pour ce quartier du PAIQ, a travaillé plusieurs mois avec les populations du quartier afin que celles ci construisent une image de leur quartier, identifient leurs besoins et priorisent les projets
http://www.france-madagascar.mg/mieux/paiq.htm
Une réflexion menée à la base avec les bénéficiaires, a permis de dégager les actions à planifier prioritairement
http://www.globenet.org/preceup/pages/fr/chapitre/capitali/e...
high priority water fountains
http://www.cityofseattle.net/parks/Publications/Policy/water...
I think that sometimes it's the action / job that is the priority
ie: priority item: water fountains
Here it could indeed be a key location / key fountain
| juliebarba
United Kingdom
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 7
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| the precedent fountain terminals
Explanation:
a. I took the adjectives “sociaux” and “prioritaires” together and the sentence came like this: (1) des operations de branchements sociaux, <et> (this conjunction is too important to the context), (2) aux bornes fontaines prioritaires.
Now, (1) first, translated roughly as (public linking up operations) am so sorry! The use of “operations” here gave the idea of a facility, structure. Cross my heart! (2) the second, (precedent fountain terminals), note, the adjective here is “fontaines prioritaires”, very important, so the principal idea is the terminal. let's walk through the phrases:> to gain access to drinking water, you go through or make use of the facility first and then take the quantity of water that you desire from the fountain terminals which precede the facility, the sense of the terminals is that they are in front of you, precedes, the facility, then “prioritaires” becomes your baby.
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Note added at 1 day9 hrs (2006-06-03 16:37:06 GMT)
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i went through juliebarba's entry and note what she said at teh end: key location, the priority is the locatioon between both objects joined with "et"
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| stand-pipes with priority access / priority access stand-pipes
Explanation:
the idea is that women and children are given priority access before others like vendors who collect water from the public standpipes to sell it.
borne-fontaine = stand-pipe
pour info détaillé voir:
Format de fichier: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - Version HTML
children to obtain priority access, even when. women have been queuing as long as two hours. ... taps each); there are also three inactive standpipes. ...
www.unhabitat.org/mediacentre/documents/ WWF/Watsan%20box%204%20a%20b%20fin.pdf - Pages similaires
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Note added at 8 hrs (2006-06-02 16:10:39 GMT)
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soory, link doesn't work - here it is again
http://www.unhabitat.org/mediacentre/documents/WWF/Watsan%20...
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Note added at 5 days (2006-06-07 11:38:42 GMT) Post-grading
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ce qui est "prioritaire" ou "priorité" c'est l'accès à ces bornes-fontaines pour les populations les plus vulnérables (enfants, femmes vs. les marchands de rue qui tirent l'eau mise à disposition gratuite de la population, pour la revendre plus loin)
| xxxdf49f
France
Native speaker of:  French
PRO pts in category: 15
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| Note from asker to answerer| Thank you all -you gave me a lot of food for thought. I'm going to go with 'communal stand-pipes in priority areas' -a combination of df49f's answers and Sandra's note. |
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