Alan Roberson
Executive Director
Alan Roberson is Executive Director of the Association of State Drinking Water Administrators (ASDWA). ASDWA's members (the state and territorial drinking water agencies) are co-regulators under the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). He has over 34 years of experience in the development of drinking water policy and federal and state drinking water regulations.
Prior to starting at ASDWA in 2017, he worked in AWWA’s Washington, DC, office for 25 years. During his time at AWWA, he authored or co-authored over 20 peer-reviewed papers, authored or co-authored a handful of book chapters, written numerous columns and Feature Articles for Journal AWWA, and made numerous presentations on a wide range of water quality and regulatory issues across the country.
He has been on Fairfax Water’s Board of Directors since 2009 and serves as Treasurer and Chair of the Water Quality & Supply Committee. He also is an adjunct instructor at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, teaching a drinking water policy class annually at the Summer Institute.
He has a Bachelor’s in Civil Engineering from Georgia Tech and a Master of Science in Civil Engineering from the Virginia Tech extension in Falls Church. He is a registered Professional Engineer in Virginia. He received the Fuller Award from the Virginia Section of AWWA in 2025.
