Rebecca West is the 2009-2010 Immediate Past President of the Water Environment Federation (WEF), an international organization of water quality professionals headquartered in Alexandria, Va.
Rebecca has more than 23 years of experience in the water quality profession and is currently the Deputy General Manager of Engineering and Technical Services for Spartanburg Water in Spartanburg, S.C. In that role, she is responsible for a division of 10 reclaimed water facilities and three drinking water facilities as well as their associated collection and distribution systems, biosolids and residuals management, and three drinking water reservoirs.
A WEF member since 1990, she has served on the House of Delegates, Biosolids and Residuals Management Committee, International Coordinating Committee, Government Affairs Committee, Microconstituents Community of Practice, and as chair of the Public Communications and Outreach Committee.
In addition, Rebecca has been an active member of the Water Environment Association of South Carolina (WEASC). She has served as chairperson of WEASC as well as the South Carolina Water for People Committee and WEASC Education, Biosolids, Laboratory and Public Education Committees. In addition, Rebecca helped develop a biosolids training school in South Carolina and established a state certification program for biosolids and water residual management operators.
She is a member of the American Water Works Association, International Water Association and a member of Business and Professional Women/USA.
A recipient of WEF’s prestigious Arthur Sidney Bedell Award and WEASC’s Select Society of Sanitary Sludge Shovelers, Rebecca is a certified biological wastewater operator and biosolids and residuals operator in the state of South Carolina. She received a B.S. in biology from Wofford College in Spartanburg, South Carolina.