The Water Environment Federation’s Laboratory Practices Community (WEF LPC) is comprised of members representing academia, consulting firms, utilities, government agencies, and manufacturers. The WEF LPC develops technical products to promote the understanding of laboratory practices for water and wastewater. Membership is open to all WEF members.
The LPC aligns with WEF’s strategic goals to encourage public awareness of the importance of water. The WEF LPC is uniquely positioned to provide non-chemists with detailed information regarding water testing, water quality, and the impact of current or proposed Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and state regulations. The WEF LPC encourages all members to get involved as each person has unique experiences and expertise.
Scope of committee activities include:
- Development of workshops, seminars, training, and technical sessions for WEFTEC and other events
- Development of publications related to laboratory practices topics
- Support development of the Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater publication through the Standard Methods Subcommittee
- Submission of comments to pending laboratory related regulations, guidance, and accreditation entities, such as The NELAC Institute (TNI) and EPA
- Development of public outreach presentations examining laboratory practices issues
- Partnering with other organizations in development of laboratory practices activities
- Distribution of an e-newsletter
Committee members volunteer through:
- Attend monthly meetings, virtually except in-person once per year at WEFTEC
- Participation in Lab Chats, the LPC’s informal outreach to the broader laboratory sector
- Create and contribute to WEFUnity discussions
- Develop and participate in webinars
- Contribute to the newsletter
- Write articles for WE&T, WEF’s magazine
- Act as a liaison to other WEF communities
Chair
Sam Youssef, 2026 – 2028
Email: sam.youssef.pki@gmail.com
Vice Chair
Kimberly Duke, 2026 – 2028
Email: kduke@stlmsd.com
2nd Vice Chair
Pending
Immediate Past Chair
William Lipps, 2026 – 2028
Email: wclipps@shimadzu.com
Community Manager
Trudi Bick
Email: tbick@wef.org
Educational Resources
To share best practices, innovation and information for lab analysts, the LPC will populate a list of webinars, seminars, conferences, etc. Please contact the LPC leadership with suggestions of webinar/workshop topics that you you would like to see.
Laboratory Ethics
Environmental Laboratory Ethics Tool Kit
Community Call Guest Speaker Presentations:
- Molecular Techniques for Wastewater Analyses, (Hanah Thompson, 10/2021)
- The Water and Wastewater Lab’s COVID-19 Update (Rasha Maal-Bared, EPCOR)(5/2020)
- Analytical methods for PFAS in environmental media (Chris Impellitteri, EPA)(9/30/2020)
- Correlation Study: TOC, 5-day BOD, CBOD in Water Reclamation Plant Influent and Effluent (Dominic Brose, MWRDGC)(2/2021)
- Wastewater Surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 in Southern Nevada