New Mexico Rural Water Users Association, Inc.

New Mexico Rural Water Users Association, Inc., doing business as New Mexico Rural Water Association, is a nonprofit corporation based in Albuquerque, New Mexico that delivers water quality training and technical assistance to rural, tribal, and small public water and wastewater systems as a sub-recipient under federal grants. The organization operates almost entirely as a subcontractor (82% of recent awards) to the National Rural Water Association, which holds prime grants from the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Agriculture.

New Mexico Rural Water Association's federal footprint centers on two funding agencies. The Environmental Protection Agency Office for Water and the Department of Agriculture Rural Utilities Service together account for 88% of recent award volume (15 of 17 awards), with EPA funding nine awards and USDA funding six. Dollar volume is modest — the combined potential value across all awards sits at $234 thousand — but obligated dollars total $1.8 million, indicating that individual award values are substantially higher than listed potential values and reflect multi-year funding commitments to employ specialized field staff.

The organization's capability work consists entirely of employment of technical specialists to deliver direct training and assistance to water and wastewater systems in compliance with federal Safe Drinking Water Act requirements. Representative recent sub-awards, dated July through September 2025 under National Rural Water Association prime grants, include positions for a Water Quality Action Specialist to train publicly-owned treatment works, decentralized systems, and municipalities on sustained operations and maintenance of wastewater treatment; a Funding Specialist to advise systems on planning, development, and acquisition of financing; a Training Specialist to promote SDWA compliance and long-term sustainability among tribal, small, and rural public water systems; and a Wastewater Technician providing technical assistance to wastewater systems. Similar sub-awards appear in the 2023 and 2024 award record, with consistent staffing models around water quality specialists, training specialists, and technical support positions.

Service Contract Inventory data captures minimal federal services activity — two SCI records spanning FY2022 through FY2024, both as named subcontractor roles, indicating roughly 3 to 3.3 FTEs delivered on reportable federal service contracts in that period. This reflects the organization's positioning as a specialized sub-recipient executing defined grant work rather than a broad service contractor. The organization does not compete for federal contracts as a prime and does not sit on government-wide acquisition vehicles, GWACs, or schedule contracts; its federal revenue flows exclusively through grant sub-awards from the National Rural Water Association as the established prime grantee.