The Association of Boards of Certification is a membership organization that fosters water and wastewater operator certification throughout North America. It was started in 1972.

The association includes almost 100 certifying authorities, representing more than 40 states, nine Canadian provinces as well as several international programs. These programs certify over 150,000 water and wastewater operators, laboratory analysts, plant maintenance technologists, biosolids land appliers and backflow prevention assembly testers.

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In the midst of the budgetary process, perhaps the biggest question is what to do about capital improvements – those big projects that are needed to repair or improve the system but are costly and can take a long time to complete.

The Rural Community Assistance Partnership and its regional affiliates offer information and guidance to help small water systems prioritize, finance and begin their capital improvement projects.

You’re a small system in a not-so-small community. The people across town may live well above the poverty line, but your customers aren’t as flush with cash, and neither are you. Yet you can’t get the funding you need because agencies assume that the wealthier residents are your customers, which puts you over the maximum income requirements.

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