WEF Highlights

Any organization’s measure of success lies in how well it accomplishes its mission. The Water Environment Federation (WEF; Alexandria, Va.), a global water sector leader, has a mission that includes four key components: connect water professionals, provide a platform for water sector innovation, enrich the expertise of water professionals, and increase the awareness of the […]

Resource recovery is an emerging societal need globally. Due to the ever-increasing pressures on progressively limited resources such as water, nutrients, and energy, it is critical to recover these resources from wastestreams. The Water Environment Federation (Alexandria, Va.) released Moving Toward Resource Recovery Facilities, a peer-reviewed publication about moving away from wastestreams and moving toward […]

Unlike other books that focus on technical design of individual “green” elements, the Water Environment Federation (Alexandria, Va.) special publication Green Infrastructure Implementation tackles topics that relate directly to the ability to implement green infrastructure. Featuring a collection of programmatic and planning topics, the publication covers a range of issues from stormwater to public education and […]

Were you unable to attend WEFTEC® 2014? The Water Environment Federation’s (Alexandria, Va.) annual technical exhibition and conference took place Sept. 27 to Oct. 1 in New Orleans. Read news, see photos, and get the highlights of what happened during the world’s largest annual water quality event in the WEFTEC Daily online.  

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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 […]

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 […]

A national testing and evaluation program for stormwater products and practices could help meet a growing need for affordable and effective stormwater management infrastructure, according to a paper released by the Water Environment Federation (WEF; Alexandria, Va.) Stormwater Testing and Evaluation for Products and Practices (STEPP) work group. The paper, “Investigation into the Feasibility of […]