Welcome to our website! The mission of the American Decentralized Wastewater Association (ADWA) is to nurture the onsite wastewater treatment industry by promoting rules, standards, training, and related activities consistent with contemporary public health and environmental protection standards, engineering practices, technologies, and an open and fair market.
Who We Are
ADWA is an association developed especially for companies that manufacture and market wastewater treatment devices certified as meeting the most recent version of ANSI/NSF Standard 40. ADWA will be at the forefront and will make a difference. We will develop an action plan to influence attitudes and regulations that affect the industry's well being. Together, leaders of the industry working together through ADWA can expand acceptance in the market through research, development, education, and lobbying efforts.
ADWA Activities
- Establish and maintain consistent testing protocols, standards, requirements, and limitations for technologies claiming to provide comparable levels of performance.
- Monitor onsite wastewater treatment, laws, codes, guidelines, training material, and technical advisory boards to ensure that certified product manufacturers and technologies are not discriminated against.
- Challenge through administrative, political, and legal processes discrimination against certified product manufacturers and technologies.
- Develop and disseminate training and education material related to onsite wastewater treatment.
- Promote the development and use of performance-based model codes as they relate to onsite wastewater treatment.
- Promote environmental protection by establishing minimum health and safety standards for onsite wastewater treatment technologies.
- Conduct routine meetings with policy makers and elected officials to ensure that the goals of ADWA are met.
- Promote research activities related to certified product technology.
- Promote funding for certified product research and use consistent with funding for research and use provided for competing technologies.
- Become the voice for the industry and the technology.
- Interaction with environmental, health, and regulatory agencies to promote the industry and act as a resource for advancing decentralized wastewater technology.
