| Acronym | Meaning |
| IWSA | International Water Supply Association |
| GWPC | Ground Water Protection Council |
| NIWR | National Institute For Water Research (South Africa) |
| RAO | Remedial Action Objective |
| RR | Relative Risk |
| ANMR | Acoustic Nuclear Magnetic Resonance |
| STHM | Scanning Thermal Microscopy |
| LCTV | Liquid Crystal Television |
| EDQNM | Eddy-damped Quasinormal Markovian [mathematics In Engineering] |
| PAPVD | Plasma-assisted Physical Vapor Deposition |