Louisiana Rural Water Association Inc.

Louisiana Rural Water Association Inc. (doing business as Lrwa), a tax-exempt non-profit based in Kinder, Louisiana, operates exclusively as a federal grant sub-recipient, delivering training, technical assistance, and water-quality improvement services to rural water and wastewater systems across the United States. The organization holds no federal contracts as a prime and has not been awarded a federal contract vehicle; all twenty recent awards are sub-awards under grants managed by the National Rural Water Association and the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality.

Lrwa's service footprint centers on water-resource capacity building and compliance support. The organization has received sub-awards to employ specialist positions that provide training and technical assistance across multiple domains: Water Quality Action Specialists serve decentralized wastewater systems, publicly-owned treatment works, municipalities, and tribally-owned and -operated systems; Training Specialists support tribal, small, and rural public water systems in achieving Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) compliance and long-term sustainability; and individual positions support wastewater technician services, manufactured housing specialist training, energy efficiency technical assistance, and financing-specialist roles. A parallel sub-award stream flows through the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality focused on reducing non-point-source (NPS) pollution, improving surface water quality, and conducting onsite wastewater disposal system inspections and educational outreach to reduce watershed impairment under the Clean Water Act.

Customer funding flows through two primary channels accounting for one hundred percent of awards. The Environmental Protection Agency Office for Water (nine awards) and the Department of Agriculture Rural Utilities Service (seven awards) together fund the bulk of Lrwa's sub-award footprint, with the Environmental Protection Agency Region 6 adding four awards. Over the past four years (2022–2025), award volume has grown from one sub-award in 2022 to eight in 2025. Combined potential value across all twenty sub-awards reached $1.9 million as of the most recent award on October 31, 2025.

The Service Contract Inventory dataset captures only two Lrwa records (both as a named subcontractor) above the $150,000 reporting threshold in FY2022 and FY2024, showing 4.2 FTEs in FY2022 and 3.1 FTEs in FY2024 on federal service contracts captured in SCI. This SCI snapshot reflects only a narrow slice of Lrwa's federal grant sub-award work; the broader grant footprint—which includes specialized-labor sub-awards and direct pass-through funding—is not captured in Service Contract Inventory and therefore represents the more complete picture of the organization's federal activity.