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Suggested Citation:"Acronyms." National Research Council. 2007. Improving the Nation's Water Security: Opportunities for Research. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11872.
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Acronyms

ANL Argonne National Laboratory

ASCE American Society of Civil Engineers

AWWA American Water Works Association

AwwaRF American Water Works Association Research Foundation

CAT Consequence Assessment Tool

CDC Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

CERCLA Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act

CI3 Critical Infrastructures Interdependencies Integrator

CPHP Centers for Public Health Preparedness

DHS Department of Homeland Security

DOD Department of Defense

DOT-Net distributed optimal technology network

EEM excitation emission matrix

EPA Environmental Protection Agency

ERDC Engineering Research and Development Center

ESSENCE Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics

ETV Environmental Technology Verification

EWS early warning system

GC gas chromatography

GIS geographic information system

HPLC high-performance liquid chromatography

HSIN Homeland Security Information Network

HSPD Homeland Security Presidential Directive

IPA Intergovernmental Personnel Act

IRIS Integrated Risk Information System

ISFET ion-sensitive field-effect transistor

LD lethal dose

MS-EPANET multi species EPANET

NACWA National Association of Clean Water Agencies

NEMI-CBR National Environmental Methods Index for Chemical, Biological, and Radioactive Agents

NHSRC National Homeland Security Research Center

Suggested Citation:"Acronyms." National Research Council. 2007. Improving the Nation's Water Security: Opportunities for Research. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11872.
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NIH National Institutes of Health

NRC National Research Council

ORD Office of Research and Development

PCR polymerase chain reaction

PDD Presidential Decision Directive

POE point of entry

POU point of use

QA quality assurance

QC quality control

QCM quartz crystal microbalance

QSAR Quantitative Structure Activity Relationship

RAM-W Risk Assessment Methodology for Water Utilities

RODS Real-time Outbreak and Disease Surveillance

RSS Rich Site Summary

RTMS real-time monitoring system

SAB Science Advisory Board

SCADA supervisory control and data acquisition

SITE Superfund Innovative Technology Evaluation

START Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terror

TEVA Threat Ensemble Vulnerability Assessment

TTEP Technology Testing and Evaluation Program

USACE U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

UV ultraviolet

VSAT Vulnerability Self Assessment Tool

WaterISAC Water Information Sharing and Analysis Center

WaterSC Water Security Channel

WCIT Water Contaminant Information Tool

WEF Water Environment Federation

WERF Water Environment Research Foundation

WLA Water Laboratory Alliance

WSCC Water Sector Coordinating Council

WSTB Water Science and Technology Board

Suggested Citation:"Acronyms." National Research Council. 2007. Improving the Nation's Water Security: Opportunities for Research. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11872.
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Suggested Citation:"Acronyms." National Research Council. 2007. Improving the Nation's Water Security: Opportunities for Research. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11872.
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