Georgia Rural Water Association Inc.

Georgia Rural Water Association Inc., a tax-exempt nonprofit based in Barnesville, Georgia, operates exclusively as a subcontractor (86% of recent awards) delivering water quality training, technical assistance, and capacity-building services to rural water systems under federal grants. The organization has no prime federal contract awards and functions as a sub-recipient under National Rural Water Association's federal grant administration, performing specialized training roles for tribal, small, and rural public water systems and wastewater treatment facilities.

The vendor's customer base centers on two federal agencies accounting for 100% of recent awards: the Environmental Protection Agency Office for Water accounts for eight awards, and the Department of Agriculture Rural Utilities Service accounts for four awards, with one sub-award each from NRCS and HHS's Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion. All fourteen awards in the source data are sub-awards under National Rural Water Association as prime grantee. The organization's role across awards is consistent: employing specialized technical staff — Water Quality Action Specialists, Training Specialists, Wastewater Technicians, Funding Specialists, and Energy Efficiency Technicians — to deliver compliance training and sustained operations guidance to publicly-owned treatment works, decentralized wastewater systems, and tribal water infrastructure.

Georgia Rural Water Association has maintained steady sub-award activity over the past several years, with six sub-awards in 2025 (spanning July through September), three in 2024, and three in 2023, generating $1.5 million in combined obligated dollars across the fourteen awards captured in the source. The organization's most recent work includes five sub-awards dated July through September 2025 under National Rural Water Association covering water quality, wastewater, energy efficiency, and funding specialist roles; the 2024 cohort carries similar scope with training specialists and technicians supporting SDWA compliance and operations training for rural systems.

Service Contract Inventory data shows Georgia Rural Water Association as a named subcontractor on two SCI-reportable contracts spanning FY2022–FY2024, delivering approximately 3.0–3.1 FTEs to federal programs over that period. All SCI records reflect sub-contractor positioning with no prime service-contract activity. The organization operates as a specialized workforce provider for grant-funded technical assistance rather than as a prime grant recipient or federal contractor, positioning it as a capacity-building support entity within the rural water infrastructure ecosystem under EPA and USDA administration.