MRWS Annual Technical Conference & Exhibition

About

The MRWS Annual Technical Conference & Exhibition is the yearly conference and trade show of Montana Rural Water Systems, a non-profit that provides training and technical assistance to the state's water and wastewater systems. The event is built around sessions, an exhibition floor and operator-facing competitions, and the organiser estimates an audience of around 850 professionals.

47th edition (2027)

• Dates: Tuesday 23 to Thursday 25 March 2027
• Venue: Billings Hotel & Convention Center, Billings, Montana, United States
• Registration: the organiser's conferences page carried a "stay tuned for updates on registration" notice

What is on

• Technical sessions and an exhibitor hall; exhibitor booth registration for the 2026 show was sold out
• The Ultimate Meter Challenge, sponsored by Zenner USA: a bracket tournament in which water professionals race to assemble a working meter. Competitors receive a practice meter by mail, entrants must be conference attendees, the winner advances to the National Rural Water Conference in Phoenix, Arizona with a chance to win a trip for two to Hawaii; prizes of USD 500, 300 and 100 gift cards
• A call for abstracts, an award nomination form and a state government registration channel

Notes

• The live mrws.org site currently answers with HTTP 403 Forbidden from this location (both plain requests and a browser session were refused), so the dates and venue above were read from the organiser's own conferences page as archived on 17 June 2026; that archived page states "MRWS 47th Technical Conference & Exhibition, March 23-25th, 2027 - Billings Hotel & Convention center".
• The previous edition, the 46th, ran 23-25 March 2026.