WEF Highlights

The Water Environment Federation (Alexandria, Va.) has sent a letter to two leaders of the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, thanking them for including a correction to a water infrastructure financing program in a bill primarily about highways — S.1647, Developing a Reliable and Innovative Vision for the Economy (DRIVE) Act. WEF […]

The Water Environment Federation (WEF; Alexandria, Va.) and more than 100 other organizations wrote a letter to the chairs and ranking members of the U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representative subcommittees on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration in opposition to reopening debate on the 2014 farm bill. The letter was written to […]

The Water Environment Federation (WEF; Alexandria, Va.) has joined others in the water sector to ask U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Gina McCarthy, Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Shaun Donovan, and members of Congress to support funding for the Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (WIFIA) and Drinking Water and Clean Water […]

The Water Environment Federation (Alexandria, Va.), American Water Works Association (Denver), and Association of Metropolitan Water Agencies (Washington, D.C.) are working together to encourage public officials to fund clean water. On May 30, the organizations sent letters to the leaders of the U.S. House of Representatives Appropriations Committee and the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee requesting […]

Since November, I have had the privilege of attending several conferences in North America, including events in Montreal; Raleigh, N.C.; and Acapulco, Mexico. Two were annual conferences for Water Environment Federation (WEF; Alexandria, Va.) Member Associations — Réseau Environnement (Montreal) and North Carolina Water Environment Association (Raleigh, N.C.) — and the third was an international conference for […]

The Water Environment Federation (Alexandria, Va.) has submitted a letter to leaders in the appropriations committees of both the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate supporting the Clean Water State Revolving Fund program and urging Congress to fund the program to the “highest possible level” in fiscal year 2014. The letter describes how […]

Interested in developing charge systems for fee-based stormwater programs? The Water Environment Federation (WEF; Alexandria, Va.) recently released the book, User-Fee-Funded Stormwater Programs, to serve as a resource for agencies and public works departments to establish these programs. With competition for general fund revenue, increasing compliance and asset management needs, and decreasing revenue from reduced […]

The Water Environment Federation (WEF; Alexandria, Va.) joined the American Water Works Association (Denver) and Association of Metropolitan Water Agencies (Washington, D.C.) to send a letter to U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (D–Calif.) on Sept. 9 supporting the Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (WIFIA). The letter expresses the organizations’ support for a pilot water infrastructure […]