| Acronym | Meaning |
| AWWA | American Water Works Association |
| RI/FS | Remedial Investigation/feasibility Study (Superfund) |
| SCPF | Self-consistent Perturbation Field |
| CNIE | Committee For The National Institute For The Environment |
| MOTA | Materials Open Test Assembly |
| CCW | Constituent Concentrations In Waste |
| NWR | Normotensive Wistar Rat |
| CT | Disinfection Concentration Contact Time |
| EMF | Electromagnetic Force |
| XC | Exchange-coulomb Potential |