Conferences & Events

NACWA hosts several conferences, workshops, regional meetings and webinars annually. We strive to offer the most current information about legislative, regulatory and legal developments and provide many opportunities for you to network with your colleagues and industry leaders from across the country. Speakers at NACWA conferences are drawn from Congress and the EPA, as well as the public and private sectors. All come ready to give in-depth presentations, willingly engage in discourse with the audience, and meet with NACWA’s committees.

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Awards Ceremony & 50th Anniversary Commemoration Event

October 28, 2020 | 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM ET

Join NACWA as we present public agency members nationwide with two well-earned and highly coveted honors: Excellence in Management Recognition and the Peak Performance Award.

The celebration will not stop there! Get a front-row seat to the debut of NACWA’s highly-anticipated 50th Anniversary Video and Report, which narrates the story of a half-century of clean water accomplishments.

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National Clean Water Law & Enforcement Virtual Event

November 17 - 19, 2020

Join us virtually for the National Clean Water Law & Enforcement Virtual Event where we will explore critical legal and enforcement issues related to emerging contaminants, wastewater surveillance, recent Clean Water Act litigation, enforcement development, impacts from COVID-19 and more – and earn up to 6 hours of Continuing Legal Education (CLE) credits to boot!

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Hot Topics Webinar Series

Hot Topics in Clean Water Law

Part 2: To Be (a Point source) or Not To Be (a point Source): Implications of the County of Maui Supreme Court Decision for Clean Water Utilities

June 10, 2020

NACWA and The WateReuse Association are partnering to gather a panel of experts for the June Legal Hot Topics Webinar to discuss the recent US Supreme Court decision in the case of County of Maui v. Hawaii Wildlife Fund. The panel will analyze the new “functional equivalence” test for determining whether a discharge is subject to Clean Water Act permitting and address what the decision means for public clean water utilities, the scope of the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) program, and water reuse projects.

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Winter Conference

February 5-8, 2019
Albuquerque, NM

In passing the Clean Water Act (CWA) and the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA), Congress had two different goals and objectives in sight. The CWA was a means to mitigate point source pollution and achieve the goal of “fishable and swimmable” surface waters in the United States. The SDWA aimed to protect public health and provide safe, high quality drinking water from source to tap. Over the last 50 years, programs under each Act have matured differently, but perhaps now more than ever, wastewater and drinking water issues are overlapping in the real world. NACWA’s 2019 Winter Conference takes a deep look into the progress of the CWA, its nexus with the SDWA, and asks whether the palpable intersection between these monumental environmental statutes breeds conflict or collaboration for the water sector.

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