Australian Water Association

The Australian Water Association (AWA) has been operating since 1962. In 2006 its website stated that it was "Australia’s largest and most influential not for profit water resource focussed association with well over 4,000 members of which 750 are corporate or utility members... AWA has a strong working relationship with the Water Services Association of Australia (WSAA) in the areas of urban water reform and research." Their net profit in 2007-2008 was $2,532 and their total retained earnings 3,266,827

The pipe paradigm

 * "The urban water cycle consists of three main engineering paradigms: stormwater and wastewater disposal and water supply. All three paradigms are actually based on a centralised control and pipe transport paradigm (the pipe paradigm). Beder 1993 explains that the pipe paradigm is popular with authorities because it ensures that water supply and wastewater disposal is a relatively automatic process and is a public rather than individual responsibility. The centralised nature of pipe paradigm also provides significant control, power and revenue to central authorities such as water authorities, local and state governments. The perception of lost power and revenue is a major source of institutional resistance to the use of decentralised technologies such as rainwater tanks.


 * "Powerful institutional bodies such as the Institution of Engineers, Australia; and the Australian Water Association have perpetuated the pipe paradigm. These institutions perpetuate the pipe paradigm through education and practice that is specified in accordance with the paradigm. Beder 1993 states that this has resulted in the domination of the wastewater disposal and water supply industries by engineers who have discarded the search for better solutions because the consensus is that the pipe paradigm is adequate."

Membership
As of June 2006, the AWA website listed members as including:

Sustaining Members
During 2004/2005 AWA had two sustaining members, the International Water Association in Australia (IWAA) and the Water Services Association of Australia (WSAA), but IWAA is now a branch of AWA.

Platinum Members

 * Agility Management Pty Ltd
 * Brisbane City Council (through Brisbane Water)
 * Earth Tech Engineering Pty Ltd
 * GHD Pty Ltd
 * Iplex Pipelines Pty Ltd
 * ITT Flygt Limited
 * Kellogg Brown and Root Pty Ltd
 * KPMG Energy and Natural Resources
 * Melbourne Water
 * SA Water Corporation
 * Sydney Catchment Authority
 * Sydney Water Corporation
 * Transfield Services Limited
 * URS Australia Pty Ltd
 * Veolia Water Systems (Australia) Pty Ltd
 * Vinidex Pty Ltd
 * Water Corporation of Western Australia

Gold Members
Source
 * ACTEW Corporation, Allens Arthur Robinson, Aquatec-Maxcon Pty Ltd, Arup Water (Ove Arup & Partners), Australian Laboratory Services, Australian Water Services Pty Ltd, Barwon Region Water Authority, BlueScope Water Limited, Burns and Roe Worley, Central Highlands Water, CH2M Hill Australia Pty Ltd, CHAMP Ventures Pty Ltd, Ciba Specialty Chemicals, City West Water Pty Ltd, Clough Limited, Coliban Water, Collex Pty Ltd, Conhur Pty Ltd, Connell Wagner Pty Ltd, Cradle Coast Water, CSIRO Land and Water, Currie & Brown (Australia) Pty Ltd, East Gippsland Region Water Authority, Ecosol Pty Ltd, Ecowise Environmental, Endress and Hauser Australia Pty Ltd, Engineered Products Group (NSW), Environmental Group Limited, Fox Environmental Systems Pty Ltd, Glenelg Region Water Authority, Golder Associates Pty Ltd, Goulburn Valley Region Water Authority, Grampians Region Water Authority, Grundfos Pumps Pty Ltd, Humes, Hyder Consulting Pty Ltd, International Paint, Ipswich Water, Iwaki Pumps Australia Pty Ltd, John Holland Water, John Wilson & Partners Pty Ltd, John Young (Kelvinhaugh) Pty Ltd, KSB Ajax Pumps Pty Ltd, Leeder Consulting Pty Ltd, Logan Water, Maunsell Australia Pty Ltd, Mitsui & Co. (Australia) Ltd, Multiplex Engineering Pty Ltd, MWH Australia Pty Ltd, North East Water, NQ Water, Omron Electronics Pty Ltd, ORICA Watercare, Parchem Construction Products Pty Ltd, Parsons Brinckerhoff, Phillips Fox, Portland Coast Region Water Authority, Power and Water Corporation, ProMinent Fluid Controls Pty Ltd, Siemens Limited, Sinclair Knight Merz, South Australian Catchment Water Management Boards, South East Water Limited, South Gippsland Region Water Authority, South West Water Authority, State Water, SunWater, Sustainable Energy Authority, Thiess Services Pty Ltd, Tyco Water, Ultraviolet Technology of Australasia, United Utilities Australia Pty Ltd, United Water International Pty Ltd, Utility Services, Vermeer Sales and Service (QLD) P/L, Wallace & Tiernan Pty Ltd, Wallingford Software Pty Ltd, WaterFresh Pty Ltd, Wedeco AVP Pty Ltd, Western Water, Westernport Region Water Authority, Wide Bay Water Corporation, Yarra Valley Water

Staff
Source
 * Chris Davis - Chief Executive Officer
 * Ian Jarman - Chief Operations Officer
 * Sue Corlette - Communications Manager
 * Susan Wilkins - Chief Financial Officer

Personnel

 * Mark Pascoe - former President

Board Members
Board members as of February 2009, are:


 * David Barnes - AWA member since 1979, General Manager, Environmental Engineering, Sinclair Knight Merz
 * Carmine Ciccocioppo - AWA member since 1996, Manager, Sustainable Development, United Utilities Australia P/L
 * Darryl Day - AWA President, AWA member since 1999, General Manager Water Services, Power and Water Authority NT
 * Thomas Belgrove - AWA Vice President, AWA member since 1980, Operations Manager Ipswich Water
 * Christobel Ferguson - AWA member since 2001, Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University NSW and Principal Research Scientist, Ecowise
 * Peter Robinson - AWA member since 1989, Principal Consultant with Earth Tech Engineering
 * Lucia Cade, WA member since 2002, Executive Consultant, Evans and Peck, Victoria
 * Trevor Winton, AWA member since 1997, Principal, Sinclair Knight Merz, Western Australia
 * Paul Freeman, AWA member since 2002 and General Manager, Asset Management, Sydney Water, New South Wales

Publications

 * Australian Water Association, 2007-2008 Annual Report", Australian Water Association (Pdf)

Contact Details
655 Pacific Hwy, St Leonards, NSW 2065

PO Box 222, St Leonards, NSW 1590

Phone: 02 9436 0055 Fax Number: 02 9436 0155 Email: info AT awa.asn.au Web: http://www.awa.asn.au