American Water Works Association (AWWA) training

Continuing Education is required to renew most professional licenses. States and provinces use different labels and have varying approval criteria. AWWA provides Certificates of Completion representing CEUs, which can then be converted to a variety of units. You must verify requirements with your state licensing agency prior to registering and receiving credit for your trainings.

This complimentary course defines the AWIA requirements for community water systems and introduces all utilities to the standards and resources designed to improve resiliency and manage risks for all-hazards. After learning how to comply with the AWIA mandate, course participants will understand how existing standards and resources can be applied by utilities to lower risk and fortify their resilience.

This course demonstrates how water and wastewater utility participants can integrate security and preparedness into the culture of their organization. Through an understanding of the elements of a risk and resilience management strategy that are based on the AWWA G430 standard, utility participants will be able to apply these elements to their own organization. The course also provides examples of best practices for all-hazards risk and resilience based on sections of the G430 standard which is titled Security Practices for Operation and Management. The information from this course facilitates compliance with provisions of America’s Water Infrastructure Act of 2018 (AWIA).

This course provides an overview of emergency preparedness, response planning, ANSI/AWWA G440 Emergency Preparedness Practices and M19 Emergency Planning for Water and Wastewater Utilities. This course will equip water and wastewater utilities to apply the content of these standards along with other current industry best practices, to develop an emergency preparedness program, as well as an Emergency Response Plan (ERP), that improve resiliency while reducing risk. The information from this course will assist utilities to meet the requirement for water systems to develop an emergency plan, as described in America’s Water Infrastructure Act (AWIA) of 2018. Upon completion of this course, participants should be able to undertake the hands-on development of an ERP for their utility or effectively manage that development by an outside party.

This course will provide participants with an awareness-level understanding of the J100 Standard for Risk and Resilience Management of Water and Wastewater Systems (J100) and how it can be used to improve resilience at any utility, as well as support the statutory mandate for community water systems described in America’s Water Infrastructure Act (AWIA) of 2018 (P.L. 115-270).

America’s Water Infrastructure Act of 2018 (AWIA) requires community water systems serving 3,300 or more persons to conduct a risk and resilience assessment and develop an emergency response plan that must be actively updated every five years.

This program provides your organization with the tools to complete on-site, face-to-face training on customer service for any number of employees.

There are 6 courses included: Physical Infrastructure, Water Supplies & Demand, Establishing Leadership in the Organization, Planning the Utility, Building the Utility, Financing the Utility.

These courses are made possible through an USEPA grant for small systems training in conjunction with AWWA`s training partner, the Rural Community Assistance Partnership (RCAP).

To access these FREE courses, please follow these steps: To access these courses, please follow these steps:. Login to your AWWA Account. Select Your Name in the top right of the page to go to My Account. Click on My Courses in the left-hand menu. Option A:If you have not accessed previously, under Small Systems Course Access, Enter Code: SMSYS20. Click Redeem and then ‘Go`.. Option B: If the system indicates ‘Error: You have already used this code”, then Enter Code: SMSYS202. Click Redeem and then ‘Go’.