Vision: AWWA is the authoritative resource on safe water.Mission: AWWA unites the water community to protect public health and to provide safe and sufficient water for all. Through collective leadership, AWWA advances technology, education, science, management, and government policies.

Goal: Helps municipal engineers make better decisions on the maintenance, renewal or replacement of existing buried systems, using and developing new and improved technologies. Focus: Performance of trunk and water-main distribution systems, and small and large-diameter drainage pipes and sewers, usually of cast iron, ductile iron, PVC, plastics or concrete (reinforced or prestressed).