Lisa Daniels of Pennsylvania Receives 2024 ASDWA Excellence in Service Award

ASDWA is pleased to announce that Lisa Daniels is the 2024 ASDWA Excellence in Service Award recipient. Each year, ASDWA honors an individual from our membership with this award in memorial to Bridget O’Grady’s long and productive career in drinking water. This year’s award recognizes Lisa’s commitment, outstanding professional performance, and many years of service to improving public health through her work with state and territorial drinking water programs and ASDWA.

Lisa Daniels recently retired as the Director for the Bureau of Safe Drinking Water at the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, and also served as Acting Deputy Secretary for the State’s Office of Water Programs. In addition to Lisa’s work in Pennsylvania, she served in many leadership roles for ASDWA and EPA.

• Lisa served as ASDWA’s President in 2018; served on the ASDWA Board in 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2022, and 2023; served as the Chair of ASDWA’s Regulatory Committee, and participated in several other ASDWA workgroups.
• In 2019, Lisa Daniels testified on behalf of ASDWA for Congressional hearings before the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works on PFAS, and in 2017, before the House Energy & Commerce Subcommittee on Environment and the Economy on SDWA Funding, Management, and Compliance Assistance.
• She served as the Chair of EPA’s National Drinking Water Advisory Council (NDWAC) and as Co-Chair of the NDWAC MDBP Rule Revisions Working Group, and participated in EPA’s Legionella Multi-Agency Taskforce, Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS) Advisory Board, and Sustainable Practices Roadmap Steering Group.

For more information about ASDWA’s Excellence in Service Award, go to: www.asdwa.org/service-award. Watch Lisa’s award acceptance video here.