Training & Professional Certifications
Advance your career with our comprehensive training and professional certifications. We offer continuing education credits, expert-authored books and study guides, and webcast series designed for busy professionals. Elevate your expertise with flexible learning tailored entirely to your schedule.
Water Leadership Institute
The water sector is changing. You need the right tools to adapt.
The Water Leadership Institute program educates, trains, and provides opportunities that enable developing and emerging leaders to build strong lasting relationships within the water industry.
Integrated Leadership Webcast Series
Great leadership takes more than technical know-how – it’s about self-awareness, communication, and connecting with others. The Integrated Leadership Webcast Series is a flexible online program to help you build those skills and meet peers across the water sector.
Continuing Education Credits
WEF offers Continuing Education credits for its events and the successful completion of its training programs, workshops, and seminars in the water-quality field. Both members and non-members can choose from self-paced and classroom courses for entry and advanced-level training; interactive and online courses for wastewater operators; and various self-study training materials in print and electronic format.
Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater
Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater™, 24th edition provides the most comprehensive resource for measuring the biological, chemical, and physical attributes of water and offers guidance for choosing among available methods for specific elements and compounds. Analysts, researchers, and regulators have relied on this expert consensus publication since 1905, and it remains a trusted source of accurate, proven methodology for analyzing natural waters, water supplies, and wastewaters.
Wastewater Treatment Fundamentals
WEF’s new line of operator training helps operators prepare for certification examinations, and each volume is eligible for up to 6 Continuing Education Units (60 contact hours). These peer-reviewed resources represent the expertise of hundreds of water quality professionals. They align with updated need-to-know criteria from the Water Professionals International (WPI) and are based on WEF’s extensive existing resource collection. After learning from real-life examples, users may actively apply the material they learn to situations they encounter in their day-to-day work.
Books and Study Guides
WEF offers peer-reviewed standards and publications — trusted resources that empower water quality professionals with proven technical practices, practical procedures, and career-advancing insights for the circular water economy. WEF’s peer-reviewed standards and other publications are intended to provide information through a review of technical practices and detailed procedures that research and experience have shown to be functional and practical.