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    Direccion de Obras Sanitarias

    Mandataria

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    Hi Izzy, is it a national department, or something like that? Sometimes you don't translate names...
    A suggestion is to check in the page whether they have an English version.

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    With Veronica

    Direccion de Obras Sanitarias must be an institution, and generally you don´t translate it, you can provide an explanation in English between brackets but depending on the context... it might be even clear in the context...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Izzy
    Direccion de Obras Sanitarias

    Mandataria

    Depending on the country it may change, but in Venezuela is de water company (Supply water) but also manage the wasted water of the city

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    Quote Originally Posted by Izzy
    Direccion de Obras Sanitarias

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    Depending on the country it might change, but in Venezuela this is the water department or company in charge of drinking water and wasted water.

    Mandataria sounds like a gobernment person: The major, the gobernor or the president.

    best regards.

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    Hi izzy, newbie here but if that is in spanish, they are asking for the "health department address" hope this helps.

    iggy

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    Default Re: Just need this translated

    As others have rightly said, this is country-dependent. I would translate it as "Water and Sanitary Sewer Services Board Management."

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    given that within english speaking countries, the states/shires/councils/counties all have different names for the same thing, in general i never bother to search for an exact match from the clients locality, I just translate the function as literally as possible, but use an organization name common in the locality for the function... thus depending on the place i would just put Sanitary Works Board.... if a big doc at the first occurance I always parenthathize the native acronym eg. (Direccion de Obras Sanitarias - DOS) and use that from therein...

    i think eds right with board... this must be a few levels down within any health department

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    oh... and if you want to use the Direccion more literally, sorry iggy but address is way off track, probably best with Directorate or for higher/highest levels General Directorate.

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