National Ground Water Association
Cliff Treyens has been director of public awareness for NGWA since September 2003. A professional communicator for more than 30 years, Treyens has been a newspaper reporter, a political communications director, and a private-sector marketing/public relations practitioner. Distinctions include the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Public Service as part of a reporting team for the (Jackson, Mississippi) Clarion-Ledger, and serving as communications director for former Mississippi Governor Ray Mabus and former Ohio House Speaker Vernal G. Riffe Jr.