| #D001 | | ECCC | Environment and Climate change Canada | high |
| #D002 | | FWQMS | Freshwater Quality Monitoring and Surveillance | high |
| #D003 | | CABIN | Canadian Aquatic Biomonitoring Network | high |
| #D004 | | CMP | Chemical Management Plan | high |
| #D005 | | RBBA | The risk-based basin analysis (RBBA) is a spatial analysis tool used to quantify the relative risk to water quality in Canada’s 1,138 sub-sub-drainage areas (SSDA’s). | high |
| #D006 | | SSDA’s | sub-sub-drainage areas | high |
| #D007 | | WQI | freshwater quality indicator | high |
| #D008 | | CESI | Canadian Environmental Sustainability Indicators | high |
| #D009 | | AOSR | Athabasca Oil Sands Region | high |
| #D010 | | Oil sands tailings | a mixture of sand, silt, clay, residual bitumen, and contaminated process-affected water | high |
| #D011 | | PAHs | Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons | high |
| #D012 | | UNDRIP | United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples | high |
| #D013 | | CIWG | Crown-Indigenous Working Group | high |
| #D014 | | Oil sands deposits | consist of bitumen bound tightly with sand. | high |
| #D015 | | Salts | inorganic ions | high |