WEFTEC 2024
Oct. 5 - 9 | New Orleans
Make your mark on water quality and environmental sustainability. Immerse yourself in WEFTEC 2024—it's more than just a conference. Connect in person with the full water community and work toward a world free of water challenges.
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What's Happening at WEF
Congratulations 2024 WEF Awardees!
WEF congratulates all individuals, teams, authors, programs, and scholarship recipients for their hard work and unyielding dedication to the world of water and the community surrounding it!
Learn About This Year’s Award Reipients
Students & Young Professionals Career Fair
Attending WEFTEC and looking to boost your water industry career? Join the Students and Young Professionals Career Fair on Oct. 7!
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Apply for the Stockholm Junior Water Prize Equipment Access Grant
If you're a student passionate about water science, this is your chance to secure a grant for HACH equipment to fuel your research for the 2025 USA Stockholm Junior Water Prize Competition. Submit your application by Oct. 25.
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11 - 14 Feb
WEF/AWWA Utility Management 2025
Get prepared for the WEF/AWWA Utility Management Conference 2025 in Dallas, Texas, to join water and wastewater managers and professionals at one of the leading, most informative, and most prestigious management conferences in the water sector.
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06 - 09 May
Residuals & Biosolids and Innovations in Treatment Technology 2025
Hear from professionals as they highlight new technologies, successful innovations, and current best practices. Get a real-world look at projects implemented, and participate in an interactive experience with equipment, technology, and service vendors that continue to improve efforts in providing high-quality infrastructure throughout the country.
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Hear What WEFTEC Has to Offer
From education to solutions and equipment to networking, WEFTEC 2024 has it all. Hear some of the reasons you should come from your peers in the water sector.
WEF Water Stories
Featured performers at the 2023 Opening General Session included Chicago’s first-ever Poet Laureate, Avery R. Young, who performed during the event.
Water Sector Comms Scholars Experience WEFTEC 2023
WEF brought a group of water sector communicators to WEFTEC 2023. Emily Garner is Public Utilities Information Specialist for the Greenville North Carolina Public Utilities Commission. Emily shares her experience at WEFTEC.
WEF WATER STORIES
Developing a diverse and passionate workforce that encourages more diversity in the water workforce is part of WEF's Strategic Plan. Charlotte Water Operator, Stacia Wilkes, tells us why she chose a career in water and why more women should too!
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Unlocking Opportunities for SYPs
WEFTEC is the ultimate hotspot for Students and Young Professionals.
Continue ReadingJacobs' & Palantir's Intelligent Water Solutions
Sponsored WEFTEC Product Launch presentations and Q&A sessions bring a new level of detail and technical specifications to exhibition programming.
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Porous Concrete to Combat Big Apple Overflows
New York City to construct 11 km (7 mi) of porous pavement in city’s largest-ever installation
Continue ReadingImagine life free of water challenges. What does that look like to you? Check out WEF’s new Strategic Plan to see how we’ll get there and then share your water story.
Details About the Strategic Plan
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