WEF Highlights

Romantic intrigue! Courtroom drama! Chlorinated water! Novelist Elizabeth Camden’s latest trilogy has everything a WEF member might possibly want in a good book — including painstakingly researched details on some of the lesser known aspects of the history of New York City’s water system.   For these novels, she begins by researching controversial, but relatively […]

With the 30th Operations Challenge just concluded at WEFTEC 2017 in Chicago, now marks an ideal time to look back at the best of the best. The idea for the Operations Challenge competition began in the mid-1980s. After Water Environment Federation (WEF; Alexandria, Va.) Member Associations began to host local operator-focused competitions, WEF hosted the first […]

From April 10 through April 16, more than 50 water sector organizations with members spanning the nation gathered in Washington, D.C., to talk to each other and to elected leaders about ensuring clean and safe water and a healthy sustainable environment. [View the story “Water Week 2016 Focuses on Policy and Funding” on Storify]

On Oct. 31, Chris French took up the job of director of Stormwater Programs at the Water Environment Federation (WEF; Alexandria, Va.). French will use his more than 15 years of water sector experience to expand this core competency area for WEF. He also will guide the efforts of the WEF Stormwater Institute, a recently […]

WEFTEC® 2015, held Sept. 26–30 at McCormick Place in Chicago, has become the largest and most successful of the Water Environment Federation’s (WEF’s; Alexandria, Va.) annual technical exhibition and conferences. The event set records with 25,048 registrants and an exhibition with 1033 companies using 28,948 m2 (311,600 net ft2) of space. Apologies from WEF Executive […]

Ed McCormick, Water Environment Federation (WEF; Alexandria, Va.) president, participated in a roundtable discussion about achieving energy neutrality of with other wastewater and energy experts. The discussion was the third in a series produced by GE (Fairfield, Conn.) Water & Process Technologies for its Energy From Wastewater series. Other panelists included Art Umble, wastewater practice […]

Time is almost up to enter the third annual Operations Ingenuity Contest   WEFTEC® 2014 is hosting the third annual Operations Ingenuity Contest, but the contest submission portal is open only until June 6. This competition recognizes your ability to solve a persistent problem with nothing more than the materials at hand and your ingenuity […]

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has released an updated resource, Promoting Technology Innovation for Clean and Safe Water: Water Technology Innovation Blueprint – Version 2, to help integrate innovations into facilities. Last year, EPA’s Office of Water released the first version of its Blueprint for Integrating Technology Innovation into the National Water Program to […]