| Acronym | Meaning |
| WPCP | Water Pollution Control Plant |
| RXF | Refracted X-ray Fluorescence |
| OECD/SIDS | Organisation For Economic Co-operation And Developments Screening Information Data Sets |
| NPDWR | National Primary Drinking Water Regulations |
| CGRO | Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory |
| FIAS | Flow Injection Atomic Spectrometry |
| PVMS | Pressure Vessel Management System |
| NFOM | Near-field Optical Microscopy |
| SLR | State And Local Relations |
| IHO | International Hydrographic Association |