NRWA Board Members
Dedicate Countless
Hours to Future of Water Industry
National Rural Water
Association members are deeply concerned about the environment, drinking
water, security and all legislation and regulations affecting water and
wastewater. Members feel so strongly about safe, clean and affordable
drinking water that they dedicate countless hours serving on national
committees to help influence the future of our industry.
Current NRWA President,
Bobby Scott, as well as Senior Vice President, Rodney Tart, both sit on
the Water Industry Coordinating Committee (WICC), which is comprised of
top officers of the five national water associations. They regularly meet
in Washington, D.C. to discuss current regulatory, legislative, and legal
issues affecting the industry.
Phil Bastin, Immediate
NRWA Past President, sits on the Water Information Sharing and Analysis
Center (WaterISAC) Board. WaterISAC is a comprehensive and
up-to-the-minute online resource of security information for America’s
drinking and wastewater utilities. It provides a unique link between the
water sector and federal environmental, homeland security, law
enforcement, intelligence and public health agencies. Subscribers are
informed about and prepared for threats because they have access to a wide
array of tools and facts including: incident reports, government alerts
and other expert analyses.
Bastin, along with NRWA
Executive Director, Charles Hilton and NRWA Environmental Engineer, Ed
Thomas; also serve on the Water Sector Coordination Council (WSCC). The
WSCC serves as a policy, strategy and coordination mechanism that
interacts with the federal government and other critical infrastructures.
Their primary aim is to reduce and eliminate vulnerabilities in the water
sector.
In addition to his work on the WSCC, Thomas,
sits on the National Drinking Water Advisory Council’s Contaminate
Candidate List Working Group which is charged to evaluate recommendations
made by the National Academy of Science’s National Research Council,
including methodologies, activities and analysis, and to make
recommendations for an expanded approach to the CCL listing process for
the purpose of protecting public health.
Also, very active in NDWAC is Dennis
Schwartz, NRWA Director and Past President, who sits on the full NDWAC
Board. The council, comprised of members of the general public, state and
local agencies, and private groups is concerned with safe drinking water.
The primary role of the council is to provide a formal means for advising
the EPA Administrator on everything that the Agency does relating to
drinking water.
Doug Anderton, NRWA Treasurer, sits on the
Water Security Working Group for NDWAC. This working group meets to
define, encourage and establish mechanisms for measurement on the features
of active and effective security programs for drinking water and
wastewater utilities.
Mel Aust, NRWA Executive Board Member, sits
on the Water Utility Council with the American Water Works Association.
Through the Water Utility Council a network of member volunteers provide
expertise on problems in many technical areas.
As you can see,
through the dedicated efforts of our National Directors, NRWA is able to
provide key information to critical groups. All of this is done to
continue the delivery of clean, safe and affordable water to the citizens
of the United States of America.
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