Seminars & Workshops
Expand your knowledge, accelerate your skills, and optimize performance.
In-Depth, Practical Water Knowledge
AWWA technical seminars and workshops are opportunities to take a deep dive on some of the most important issues water professionals face on the job.
AWWA financial and legal roundtables consider today’s water issues from a unique financial and legal perspective, with programming tailored to utility executives and management.
Developed and taught by renowned water experts, these educational experiences offer immersive insight into topics such as setting water rates, pipeline condition assessment programs, legal and financial topics, regulatory activity and more. Get in-depth practice with the latest tools, learn alongside your peers, and prepare for success.
Technical Seminars & Workshops
Water Audits & Non-Revenue Water Management
Managing the efficiency of water and financial resources has never been more important. This two-day AWWA Seminar on Water Audits and Non-Revenue Water Management takes students in-depth through the best-practices of water auditing and loss assessment, data validation, key performance indicators, cost impacts, and mitigative measures for controlling apparent and real losses.
2025 Registration now open!
February 25-26, 2025
Long Beach, California
Rate-Setting Essentials
This three-day seminar provides an updated lens on how-to evaluate and develop financial policies and proposed rates that are cost-based and equitable. Attendees will receive guidance to effectively communicate policies and rate impacts to customers in current times. The program combines time honored strategies with modern approaches to get the rate levels your utility needs to be successful, while promoting community objectives.
Pipeline Condition Assessment Seminar
Tackle the issue of pipeline condition assessment at this three-day seminar. As renewing and replacing aging infrastructure remains a top challenge, utilities are embracing asset management practices, including condition assessment. Attendees will be engaged in instructional training, interactive exercises, and group sharing opportunities to cover the key components of a condition assessment program.
2025 dates coming soon!
WIFIA/SRF Workshop
This AWWA workshop brings together water and finance professionals to discuss ways the Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (WIFIA), Clean Water and Drinking Water State Revolving Funds (SRF), and other programs can be applied to help utilities solve their water infrastructure financing challenges. This workshop will feature interactive sessions on planning for funding opportunities and making safe and sustainable water infrastructure investments.
Customer Service Seminar — On-Demand
This is a ‘Seminar in a Box’ — we send you the materials, you furnish your own trainer.
Materials are created to help customer service professionals in the water sector addresses the challenges facing water utilities in the 21st century. The overall purpose of these materials is to assist you in training your customer service representatives to be responsive to utility customer expectations and to help customer service managers prepare their teams to face these challenges.
Financial & Legal Roundtables & Workshops
Special programming brought to you by the AWWA Finance and Legal Communities.
AWWA Roundtable events consider today’s water issues from a unique financial and legal perspective. The topics feature content tailored to the needs of utility leaders — offering unparalleled opportunities to deepen your understanding of the legal and financial risks your utility faces, and strategies to manage them. The networking and high-level connections made at these events will have lasting impact.
From Rules to Solutions: LCRI, PFAS & Community Impact
New EPA rules will impact utility legal and financial considerations.
This AWWA roundtable will sharpen your strategies to address these issues with content that is tailored to the needs of utility executives.
December 5-6, 2024
Chicago, Illinois
One Water: Navigating the Financial, Legal, and Management Opportunities
This day-long roundtable will focus on three key components of any One Water program: the financial, legal, and management aspects involved in both visualizing and creating a successful One Water program.
Join us to explore how the One Water approach to managing finite water resources is growing and evolving across the country as water utilities and communities of all sizes seek collaborative approaches to achieving sustainable and resilient water systems.
February 20, 2025
Palm Desert, California
Cybersecurity Risk & Responsibility in the Water Sector: Financial & Legal Roundtable
Cybersecurity has many potential legal and financial impacts.
Thank you to all who joined us in October 2024 for this event, where top officials and experts shared how utilities can strategize to address cybersecurity risks. The roundtable featured cybersecurity content tailored to the needs of utility leaders, providing attendees the chance to deepen their understanding of the legal and financial risks your utility faces, and strategies to manage them.
Dates and Location:
October 2, 2024
Washington, DC (Dulles Airport)