Technical Reports
Explore the AWWA Technical Library to discover fresh resources and data insights.
Latest Reports
AWWA Technical Reports — produced in collaboration with Technical and Educational Council Committee Members — are released routinely with fresh reports every year. Turn to these reports for useful toolkits and user-friendly, actionable guidance. Whether you are looking for community outreach tips or water quality best practices, AWWA Technical Reports keep you up-to-date.
Enforcement Mechanisms: Moving Beyond Local Ordinances for Water Utilities (2025, 32pp, PDF)
Incorporating Climate Change Impacts Into Demand Forecasting (2025, 52pp, PDF)
Disinfecting Building Potable Water Plumbing in New or Repaired Systems (2024,19pp, PDF)
Emergency Preparedness Security Staffing Survey (2024, 21pp, PDF)
Level of Progress in Utility Asset Management: Survey Results (2023, 41pp, PDF)
Designing and Evaluating Effective and Ongoing Drought Communications (2022, 54pp, PDF)
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Water Quality & Treatment
AWWA/IAPMO Manual of Recommended Practice for the Safe Closure and Reopening of Building Water Systems (2022, 45 pages, PDF)
Lithium in Drinking Water: Comparison of exposure sources, regulatory guidelines and public discussion of risks and benefit (2022, 23pp, PDF)
ATP & Coliform Analysis Comparison for Infrastructure Service (2020, 89pp, PDF)
Responding to Water Stagnation in Buildings with Reduced or No Water Use: A Framework for Building Managers (2020, 30pp, PDF)
Methods to Assess Anthropogenic Bromide Loads from Coal-fired Power Plants and Their Potential Effect on Downstream Drinking Water Utilities (2019, 93pp, PDF)
Water Utility Disinfection Survey Report (2018, 171pp, PDF)
Cyanotoxins in US Drinking Water: Occurrence Case Studies and State Approaches to Regulation (2016, 61pp, PDF)
Managing Cyanotoxins in Drinking Water: A Technical Guidance Manual for Drinking Water Professionals (2016, 67pp, PDF)
Effect of Forest Cover on Drinking Water Treatment Costs (2016, 51pp, PDF)
Radionuclide Rule Compliance: Utility Guidance on Analytical Methods (2015, 48pp, PDF)
Infrastructure
Level of Progress in Utility Asset Management: Survey Results (2023, 41pp, PDF)
Assessing the State of Customer Meter Accuracy Testing and Replacement Practices Project (2022, 27pp, PDF)
Assessment of Performance Indicators for Non-revenue Water Target-setting and Progress Tracking (2019, 118, PDF)
Key Data to Inform Government Asset Management Policies (2019, 104pp, PDF)
AWWA Asset Management Definitions Guidebook (2018, 33pp, PDF)
Residential Fire Sprinkler Systems – Guidance for Water Utilities (2018, 38pp, PDF)
AWWA Leading Business Practices in Asset Management Case Study Report (2017, 125pp, PDF)
The State of Water Loss Control in Drinking Water Utilities (2016, 24pp, PDF)
Establishing the Level of Progress in Utility Asset Management Survey Results (2015, 48pp, PDF)
Current Sustainable Infrastructure Practices (2014, 124pp, PDF)
Buried No Longer: Confronting America’s Infrastructure Challenges (2012, 37pp, PDF)
Risk & Resilience
Emergency Preparedness Security Staffing Survey (2024, 21pp, PDF)
Protecting the Water Sector’s Critical Infrastructure Information: Analysis of State Laws (2020, 48pp, PDF)
Water Sector Resource Typing Guidance (2019, 108pp, PDF)
Cybersecurity Risk and Responsibility in the Water Sector (2019, 20pp, PDF)
Hurricanes Harvey and Irma After-Action Report (2018, 24pp, PDF)
Process Control System Security Guidance for the Water Sector (2017, 39pp, PDF)
Superstorm Sandy After-Action Report (2013, 10pp, PDF)
Utilities Helping Utilities: An Action Plan for Mutual Aid and Assistance Networks for Water and Wastewater Utilities (2005, 40pp, PDF)
Utility Management
Enforcement Mechanisms: Moving Beyond Local Ordinances for Water Utilities (2025, 32pp, PDF)
Designing and Evaluating Effective and Ongoing Drought Communications (2022, 54pp, PDF)
Guidance for Developing a Water Utility Innovation Program (2020, 45pp, PDF)
The Financial Impact of the COVID-19 Crisis on U.S. Drinking Water Utilities (2020, 38pp, PDF)
A Water Utility Manager’s Guide to Community Stewardship (2019, 81pp, PDF)
Water Reuse Cost Allocations and Pricing Survey (2019, 80pp, PDF)
Developing a New Framework for Household Affordability and Financial capability Assessment in the Water Sector (2019, 129pp, PDF)
Trending in an Instant: A Risk Communication Guide for Water Utilities (2019, 88pp, PDF)
Operator Licensing Requirements Across the United States: Levels and Effects (2018, 125pp, PDF)
A Water Utility Manager’s Guide to Cyanotoxins (2015, 18pp, PDF)
Thinking Outside the Bill: A New Guide to Affordability and Customer Assistance (2022, 72pp, PDF)
Assessing the Affordability of Federal Water Mandates: An Issue Brief (2013, 12pp, PDF)
Affordability Assessment Tool for Federal Water Mandates (2013, 33pp, PDF)
Electronic Consumer Confidence Report (eCCR): Best Practices Guide (2013, 25pp, PDF)
Strategies to Obtain Customer Acceptance of Complete Lead Service Line Replacement (2005, 37pp, PDF)
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Water Resources
Incorporating Climate Change Impacts Into Demand Forecasting (2025, 52pp, PDF)
Increasing consumer benefits & engagement in AMI-based conservation programs (2022, 114pp, PDF)
Increasing consumer benefits & engagement in AMI-based conservation programs: Guidebook for Practitioners (2022, 25pp, PDF)
Source Water Protection Performance Metrics (2021, 22pp, PDF)
Protecting Drinking Water at the Source: Working with the USDA Forest Service (2019, 6pp, PDF)
Source Water Protection Justification Toolkit (2018, 28pp, PDF)
Communicating Source Water Protection Efforts in Consumer Confidence Reports (Literature Review) (2018, 54pp, PDF)
Communicating Source Water Protection Efforts in consumer Confidence Reports: Guidance Document (2018, 41pp, PDF)
Potable Reuse 101: An Innovative and Sustainable Water Supply Solution (2016, 8pp, PDF)
National Survey of Commercial Industrial and Institutional Water Efficiency Programs (2016, 117, PDF)
A Water Utility Manager’s Guide to Cyanotoxins (2015, 18pp, PDF)
Source Protection Handbook: Using Land Conservation to Protect Drinking Water Supplies (2014, 90pp, PDF)
AWWA Committee Reports
An AWWA committee report is a statement of findings made to AWWA membership. These are consensus reports and are often printed in whole or summarized in JournalAWWA for publication as a non‐peer reviewed article.
Committee Report: Pandemic Responses Learned: Water Sector Best Practices (2021, 10pp, PDF)
Committee Report: Key Performance Indicators for Nonrevenue Water (2020, JournalAWWA)
Structural Classifications of Pressure Pipe Linings: Suggested Protocol for Product Classification (2019, 44pp, PDF)
Committee Report: Getting Started in Transient Analysis (2019, JournalAWWA)
Committee Summary Report: Corrosion Testing for Lead-Free Copper Alloys Used for Drinking Water Applications in Underground Environments (2018. JournalAWWA)
Committee Report: Ripples From the San Juan Capistrano Decision (2016, JournalAWWA)
Committee Report: Business Practices to Help Utilities Better Manage Assets (2016, JournalAWWA)
AWWA Survey Reports
Level of Progress in Utility Asset Management: Survey Results (2023, 41pp, PDF)
Water Utility Disinfection Survey Report (2018, 171pp, PDF)
National Survey of Commercial Industrial and Institutional Water Efficiency Programs (2016, 117, PDF)
Establishing the Level of Progress in Utility Asset Management Survey Results (2015, 48pp, PDF)
AWWA State of the Water Industry Reports
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