WEF Highlights

Building rain gardens is one core aspect of Forever Green Take Action Project Girl Scouts around the country are rolling up their sleeves and working to improve the environment. To celebrate the organization’s 100-year anniversary this year, the Girl Scouts of the United States of America (GSUSA; New York) launched the Girl Scouts Forever Green […]

East Bay Municipal Utility District (EBMUD; Oakland, Calif.) is making history. The district, which had been working to achieve net-zero energy consumption, has raised the bar. In addition to its program of collecting such organic wastes as restaurant grease, cheese waste, poultry blood, and winery wastewater from the surrounding area and using it to produce […]

The Water Environment Federation (WEF; Alexandria, Va.) has a new cost-effective and innovative way to deliver educational content to the water sector. The Knowledge Center is an online platform to access WEF’s distance-learning training, including fundamental courses, accelerated courses, and archived webcasts. These training options enable individuals to earn Continuing Education Units, Contact Hours, or […]

Help shape the future of the Water Environment Federation (WEF; Alexandria, Va.) leadership by nominating WEF’s experienced and accomplished members. The WEF Nominating Committee invites you to submit nominations for the WEF Board of Trustees (2 positions), WEF vice president, WEF treasurer, and WEF House of Delegates — delegate-at-Large(four positions). Nominations information and forms are […]

The Water Environment Federation (Alexandria, Va.) and the International Water Association (London) have announced the third annual World Water Monitoring Challenge (WWMC) Water Champion Award winners. The awards, initiated in 2009, recognize WWMC participants for outstanding achievement in increasing awareness of water quality issues through the WWMC program. Winners, chosen by the WWMC regional panel […]

Since switching in March to a sponsored model for webcasts, the Water Environment Federation (WEF; Alexandria, Va.) has been able to offer webcasts to water sector professionals at no cost. This has resulted in nearly double — and in some cases, triple — the number of participants. Participant feedback also has been positive. “I learned […]

The new My Stormwater App provides those planning to attend the Stormwater Symposium 2012, to be held July 18 to 20 at the Sheraton Baltimore City Center, access to the full technical program on their mobile devices. My Stormwater App is searchable by date, time, speaker, and topic area. It includes the Online Resource Guide, […]

Water Environment Federation (WEF; Alexandria, Va.) Executive Director Jeff Eger joined leaders of other water quality associations in asking the U.S. Congress to continue supporting U.S. Environmental Protection Agency grant funding to states in the 2013 fiscal year budget. Leaders from WEF, the National Association of Clean Water Agencies (Washington, D.C.), Association of Clean Water […]