Des Moines Water Works Receives Top Utility Performance Award

The Association of Metropolitan Water Agencies (AMWA) has awarded Des Moines Water Works with a top award for exceptional utility performance this year.

The 2024 Gold Award was presented at the recent AMWA Executive Management Conference. AMWA consists of more than 180 members utilities nationwide, each serving more than 100,000 customers. A committee of peer utilities selected the award winners.

“Earning an AMWA award signifies the highest level of excellence in managing and operating water utilities,” AMWA CEO Tom Dobbins said. “Their work ensures access to one of life’s essential resources and promotes environmental sustainability.”

Des Moines Water Works, the largest drinking water utility in the state of Iowa, was recognized for its lead in the development of Central Iowa Water Works, a 12-member regional governance entity that will own all source, treatment, and transmission infrastructure in central Iowa and have responsibility for long-range planning and funding of water treatment capacity expansion.

In addition, the utility’s highlights include safeguarding physical assets through programs such as an annual leak survey to lessen water loss in the distribution system and addressing affordability and rate fairness through development of a proposed inclining rate structure.

“We know the work we do each day on behalf of our 600,000 central Iowa customers is critical to providing them with clean, reliable drinking water,” Des Moines Water Works CEO and General Manager Ted Corrigan said. “It’s an honor to be recognized by the nation’s top utilities for our efforts.”

Utilities are evaluated in a variety of areas including commitment to environmental advocacy.

Des Moines Water Works was the first water utility in the nation to certify to ISO 50001 – Energy Management, a rigorous standard that uses the development of an energy management system and a program of regular auditing to improve an organization’s energy intensity and reduce energy costs.

In 2020, DMWW became the first water utility in the nation to have all its water treatment plants certified to ISO 50001and SEP 50001.
DMWW’s watershed protection work includes collaborating with unlikely partners who are committed to improving water quality through partial ownership of a cover crop seeder, demonstration of conservation practices on the landscape, and education of landowners and producers through bootcamps and tours of the utility’s treatment process including its nitrate removal facility.

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