Water & Wastewater Utilities

Helping water and wastewater utilities of all sizes reach their efficiency goals, develop staff capacity, and ensure a resilient water future for communities across North America.

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The AWE Network Helps Your Community

Achieve your conservation goals

State-of-the-art tools, programs, and resources help you achieve conservation success.

Use our Water Conservation Tracking Tool to assess your programs.
Access social media and communication tools.
Customize AWE’s educational videos and the Home Water Works calculator.
Build efficiency-oriented rates with our rate model and handbook.

Get personalized, one-on-one technical assistance from staff

Consult the experts on our program staff as you plan and implement your water efficiency initiatives.

Participate in public policy advocacy

Know what’s around the corner: receive updates on key policy initiatives that affect your utility and customers via our newsletter and policy page.
Join AWE and our member organizations in advocating for the WaterSense program.
Support our efforts to make water conservation rebates exempt from federal taxes. .
Gain assistance to exert influence where it matters: ask AWE to provide support letters, help develop legislation, or engage with decision-makers.

Learn from peers and AWE resources

Learn from the latest water efficiency case studies to inform your programs.
Discuss challenges, ideas, and successes with peers through our Education and Outreach Committee.
Leverage our resource library with member-only content to build out viable conservation strategies.
Learn the latest on trends, technologies, and best practices that you can bring back to your job through webinars, training, and publications.

Collaborate to develop critical research

Design, plan, and participate in groundbreaking research on issues you need information on.

Participate in joint research on crucial efficiency topics, such as outdoor water use, the water-energy nexus, water loss, and drought.
Develop partnerships with leading technology organizations through our Water Efficiency Research Committee.

Gain recognition for your leadership

Share your successes and promote your accomplishments amongst the leading network of pioneers, influencers, and thinkers in water efficiency.

Gain national recognition for your conservation program through our G480 Leaderboard.
Participate in advisory committees to influence AWE’s education efforts, research and advocacy.
Highlight your successes and leadership through our roundtables and webinars, newsletters, and active social media channels that reach the water community.

Membership Dues

This category is for public agencies, municipalities, and investor-owned or privately owned entities that provide water to individuals and communities. If your agency, municipality, or utility is a retail and wholesale water provider or a retail and wastewater agency, annual dues will be calculated using both the number of retail water connections and the amount of wholesale water sold or water treated.

Retail Water Provider

Retail Water Connections	Dues
Less than 33,300 connections	$525	Select
Per connection	1.575¢ (or $0.01575) per connection	Select
More than 1.55 million connections	$25,000	Select

Wholesale Water Provider

Wholesale Water Sold	Dues
Less than 20 MGD	$525	Select
20 MGD - 1 BGD	$26.25 per MGD	Select
Greater than 1 BGD	$25,000	Select

Wastewater Agency

Public agencies; municipalities; and investor-owned or privately-owned entities that process and treat wastewater. Note: This is only for stand-alone wastewater agencies.

Wastewater Processed & Treated	Dues
Less than 50 MGD	$525	Select
50 MGD - 1 BGD	$10.50 per MGD	Select
Greater than 1 BGD	$10,500	Select

“I love being an AWE member mainly for access to all the great webinars that they host, and all the research I have access to. Coming from a small utility, I don’t always have the capability to travel and can’t always do research myself, so I get valuable information that I otherwise would not get. I love that I can educate myself and our customers in Round Rock.”

Jessica Woods

Conservation Coordinator, Round Rock, TX

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