There are three classes of membership: Charter Member, Full Member, and Associate Member. A Charter Member and a Full Member must be a company that has at least one (1) onsite wastewater treatment device certified and listed by an ANSI-accredited testing agent as meeting the most recent revision of ANSI/NSF Standard 40, Class 1, in effect at the time of membership. The company's certification and listing must be current. The company must abide by the policies that accompany ANSI/NSF Standard 40, and these polices must be substantially equivalent to those of NSF International for the duration of the membership.
Benefits of Membership in ADWA Include:
- Combined experience and resources of peer companies;
- Coordinated activities to achieve common goals;
- Common, industry-wide defense of positions and claims;
- Focused review and response to industry issues;
- Development and maintenance of strategic plan to accomplish industry objectives.
Specific Goals of ADWA:
- Promote third-party certification of onsite wastewater treatment devices and components
- Eliminate bias against third-party certification
- Educate regulators and public
- Develop strategic plan to advance association issues
- Gain regulatory acceptance and legal recognition of third-party certified technologies
- Base regulatory approval on documented third-party certification
- Confront bias exhibited against specific onsite wastewater treatment technologies
- Work toward acceptance of technology
- Develop and abide by a code of ethics
- Proactively support and defend technology
- Grow the market/industry
- Promote practices incompatible with disreputable practices and products
- Represent manufacturers before certifying agencies
- Participate in the development and promulgation of model rules and code
- Provide representation on technology review committees
- Unify manufacturers on issues of mutual concern
- Promote mandatory maintenance for all technologies
- Promote the requirement for third-party certification in state/local rules
- Promote evaluations of all technologies based on documented performance
