WEF Highlights

The Water Environment Federation (WEF; Alexandria, Va.) has released Emergency Planning, Response, and Recovery. The book was developed to help utility managers develop emergency response plans to recover from such events as infrastructure failure, small-scale and large-scale natural disasters, and human-made incidents. The case studies are the book’s most attractive feature, according to task force chair […]

The Water Environment Federation (WEF; Alexandria, Va.) has released The Energy Roadmap: A Water and Wastewater Utility Guide to More Sustainable Energy Management. Published earlier this year, the book is a guide for utilities to take advantage of sustainable energy sources. The book details approaches to cost-effective recovery and reuse of “wastes” to transform them […]

The Water Environment Federation (WEF; Alexandria, Va.) is updating the publication,  Risk-Based Planning for Wet Weather. This update of the 2006 WEF Guide to Managing Peak Wet Weather Flows in Municipal Wastewater Collection and Treatment Systems will serve as a fundamental framework for sanitary sewer overflows/peak flows topics and will reflect the best current thinking, […]

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 […]

In May, the Water Environment Federation (WEF; Alexandria, Va.) released the publication Solids Process Design and Management. The manual was published jointly with the Water Environment Research Foundation (Alexandria) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Essential for professionals involved in the design, approval, and operation of municipal solids treatment and disposal systems, this book contains […]

The Water Environment Federation (WEF; Alexandria, Va.) has released Manual of Practice (MOP) 23, Design of Urban Stormwater Controls. The manual is being published jointly with the American Society of Civil Engineers (Reston, Va.) and the Environmental and Water Resources Institute (Reston, Va.). Fully updated to address the paradigm shift in how stormwater is viewed […]