Emerging Contaminants Community
The vision of the WEF Emerging Contaminants Community is to establish WEF as a recognized leader and trusted resource of information on emerging contaminants for water professionals, the public and decision makers developing policy and regulations.
Our mission is to gather practitioners of the Emerging Contaminants Community with expertise or interest in studying risk to the industry in the upcoming decade, with a watch eye of future contaminants, to provide an informed, trusted voice and guidance to water professionals, the public, and decision makers. To protect human health and the environment by addressing the presence of Emerging Contaminants and to solve Emerging Contaminants challenges.
Access the Emerging Contaminants Community Charter to learn more about the Community plan and organizational chart.
Chair
Viraj deSilva, 2025-2027
Email: Viraj.deSilva@freese.com
Vice Chair
Cayla Cook, 2025-2027
Email: ccook@hazenandsawyer.com
2nd Vice Chair
Gary Hunter, 2025-2027
Email: HunterGL@bv.com
WEF Staff Manager
Victoria Weitekamp
Email: vweitekamp@wef.org
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