WEF Highlights

The 2014 Water Challenge marked a key event of New Orleans Entrepreneur Week, March 22–28. Barry Liner, director of the Water Environment Federation (WEF; Alexandria, Va.) Water Science and Engineering Center, appeared as one the featured speakers for the daylong challenge on March 24. Those attending WEF’s upcoming Technical Exhibition and Conference (WEFTEC® 2014) will […]

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) provides various resources to help water-sector facilities become more sustainable. Recently, EPA released Moving Toward Sustainability: Effective and Sustainable Practices for Creating Your Water Utility Roadmap, to help water resource recovery facilities implement practices to improve operations and move toward sustainability at a pace consistent with facility and community needs. […]

The Water Environment Federation (WEF; Alexandria, Va.) has worked with partners to create a vision of the water utility of the future. Last year, WEF, the National Association of Clean Water Agencies (Washington, D.C.), and the Water Environment Research Foundation (Alexandria, Va.) released “The Water Resources Utility of the Future: A Blueprint for Action.” As […]

The Water Environment Research Foundation (WERF; Alexandria, Va.) has launched a new e-newsletter focused on industrial wastewater needs. Designed to provide access to new research and information about opportunities of interest to the industrial wastewater industry, the newsletter covers such topics as trace organic compounds, innovative technologies for treatment, stormwater best management practices, operations optimization, […]

If you have an idea for a new, innovative, self-contained toilet, the Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene team of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (Seattle) wants to hear from you. The team has issued a request for letters of inquiry (LOIs) to participate in the next phase of the Reinvent the Toilet Challenge. Accepted applicants […]

In the next year, the Water Environment Federation (WEF; Alexandria, Va.) will promote innovative solutions to stormwater runoff around the United States. Using a $10,000 grant provided by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Green Streets–Green Jobs–Green Towns Initiative, WEF will host a meeting that brings together organizations interested in hosting a Low-Impact Development (LID) Design […]

Sustainability Reporting Statements for Wastewater Systems provides guidance for wastewater utilities on basic principles of reporting on sustainability. It describes key attributes of internationally accepted frameworks for application to the wastewater industry. Primary and secondary sustainability indicators are identified and recommendations are offered on formats for reporting on wastewater system sustainability. These recommendations are placed […]

Raleigh, N.C., utility tests biofuel crops and plans to process fuel this winter   Most wastewater treatment plants do not support acres of sunflowers, rapeseed, or sorghum. However, a grant-funded pilot program at the Neuse River Wastewater Treatment Plant (Raleigh, N.C.) could interest some treatment plant managers in growing biofuel crops and defraying costs.  In […]