The objectives of this association shall be to assist, promote, encourage, and support the interests and welfare of the groundwater industry in all of its phases generally and in particular within Alaska; to foster, aid, and promote scientific education, standards, research, and techniques in order to improve methods of well construction and development, and to advance the science of groundwater hydrology; to promote harmony and cooperation between well contractors and governmental and scientific agencies relative to the proper development and protection of underground water supplies; to encourage cooperation of all interested groups relative to the improvement of drilling and pumping equipment; to encourage, serve, assist, and promote close cooperation with the National Ground Water Association, Inc.; to collect, analyze and disseminate information to the economy of Alaska and of the nation; and to advance generally the mutual interests of all those engaged in the groundwater industry, in their own and the public interest.