The New Jersey Water Association (NJWA) is a statewide association that offers membership to all water and wastewater utilities in New Jersey.  NJWA also offers associate membership to engineers, manufacturers, suppliers, contractors, accountants, attorneys, and other individuals or entities active in the water and wastewater industries. Our office is located in Waretown, New Jersey about  30 minutes from  Long Beach Island  and 45 minutes from the boardwalk in Atlantic City. The NJWATER staff covers the entire state to provide on-site technical assistance with Consumer Confidence Reports (CCR), equipment demonstations,groundwater protection planning and educational outreach to schools.
The NJWA is governed by a board of directors comprised of nine members elected to staggered three-year terms by the voting membership and an associate advisor elected annually by the associate members.
The New Jersey Water Association, created by leaders from New Jersey drinking water industries have been providing training, technical assistance, advocacy, and a variety of other services and benefits to water districts, wastewater,boroughs, water associations, and municipalities under 10,000 in population.

  As an affiliate of the National Rural Water Association (NRWA) we are part of the strongest rural water association in the country. NRWA is a federation of forty-six state rural water associations that represent over 22,000 water and wastewater utilities throughout the continental United States.  NJWA"s basic training and technical assistance services are provided to all utilities that request help, regardless of membership status.  Over the past nine years, the New Jersey Water Association staff has developed a reputation for possessing a wide range of practical and technical knowledge, displaying professionalism, and exhibiting genuine care and concern through its work with utility decision makers, managers, operators, and other personnel.

Funding for training and technical assistance programs comes in large part from NRWA-administered grants from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the United States Department of Agriculture, Rural Development (RD).  A portion of the EPA monies is used to provide a variety of professional classroom training opportunities to utility decision makers, managers, operators, and others. These training seminars, conducted at locations throughout the state, offer continuing education credit hours toward the state"s water and wastewater operator certification program requirements.

The balance of these federal funds is used to provide technical assistance. These technical assistance programs are performed by a group of trained professionals using a "circuit rider" approach. NJWA field staff travel the state, normally in response to a system request, providing on-site training and technical assistance on virtually every aspect of utility administration, operation, and/or management. Typical areas of assistance include: leak detection, treatment plant analysis, regulatory interpretation, trouble-shooting, one-on-one tutoring, utility rate analysis, etc. Our federally funded field staff includes: two Water Circuit Riders, one Wastewater Technicians, Groundwater Technician, Sourcewater Technician and Training Specialist.