AUBURN — John B. Storer of Auburn has been elected state director for Maine by the New England Water Works Association, the region’s largest and oldest not-for-profit organization of water works professionals.

Storer is superintendent of the Auburn Water and Sewerage Districts. He has been a member of NEWWA for seven years.

Previously, Storer was a design engineer for Wright-Pierce and district engineer for the Kennebunk, Kennebunkport and Wells Water District. He received a bachelor of science degree in civil engineering from the University of Maine. He is a registered professional engineer in Maine and New Hampshire, and holds a Maine Class III operator’s license in treatment and distribution.

He is a past president, former five-term member of the board of directors and former member of the water resources and public awareness committees of the Maine Water Utilities Association.

He chaired the Maine Water and Wastewater Emergency Response Network, which developed the mutual-aid concept of “utilities helping utilities.”

Storer is a technical adviser to the Lake Auburn Watershed Protection Commission. He is also the current vice president of the Auburn-Lewiston Rotary Club and chairman of its membership committee.