Water is Life – Certification Makes It Happen.
The WPI Certification Program is a vehicle for individuals to become certified where a state, provincial, or other government agency does not have a mandatory program established or for individuals who hold equivalent active certification in a jurisdiction with a mandatory program.
Approximately 600 active certificates are currently maintained by the WPI Certification Program, which also holds an active database of the certificants’ qualifications, certificates issued, and continuing education credits acquired.
Certification Process
- Complete the Certification Application on Certemy (instructions below).
- Your current level of certification, education, and work experience will be reviewed.
- If you meet WPI’s criteria for reciprocity, you will receive a WPI certificate that is valid for two years.
- If you seek WPI certification through examination and meet WPI’s criteria, arrangements will be made to take a certification exam with a proctor approved by WPI. (You may be required to travel to take the WPI exam.) If you pass WPI’s certification exam you will receive a WPI certificate that is valid for two years.
Browse the WPI Certification Program area for more details on the certification process, examinations, reciprocity, benefits of certification, and certification registry.
If you have questions, please email us at certification@gowpi.org.
Certification Fees
Complete the Certification Application within the Certemy Platform.
Further instructions can be found on the Certification through Examination and Certification through Reciprocity pages. Your current level of certification, education, and work experience will be reviewed.
- If you meet WPI’s criteria for reciprocity, you will receive a WPI certificate that is valid for two years.
- If you seek WPI certification through examination and meet WPI’s criteria, arrangements will be made to take a certification exam with a proctor approved by WPI. (You may be required to travel to take the WPI exam.)
- If you pass WPI’s certification exam you will receive a WPI certificate that is valid for two years. If you fail, you will receive information on setting up a retest.
- You must wait 30 days between exam attempts.
Get Certified: Operators
WPI offers certification to operators in water treatment, distribution, very small water systems, wastewater treatment, collection, and industrial waste. Along with examination requirements, the following education and experience requirements must be met for WPI certification:
Operator Certification Requirements
Individuals who do not meet the above requirements may still be eligible through WPI’s system that allows for substitution of education and experience. In addition, WPI offers an “in-training” certification to those applicants that do not yet meet our education and experience requirements.
Along with meeting the education and experience requirements, the operator must pass WPI’s Certification Exam or an equivalent exam with a score of 70% or higher. For more information about the examination, please refer to Examination Resources.
