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WEF President-Elect Jenny Hartfelder, P.E., PMP blogs about World Water Day 2017

The United Nations' theme for World Water Day on March 22, 2017 is wastewater, a great opportunity for water quality professionals to increase efforts that educate the public about the value of water. In celebration of World Water Day 2017, WEF is taking a two-fold approach, national and international, that supports our mission to increase the awareness of the impact and value of water.

The Federation is conducting  U.S.-based outreach that focuses on Water Week and the Value of Water Campaign activities (WEF is a co-organizer of Water Week and a founding supporter of the Value of Water Campaign) The U.S. activities focus on the infrastructure investment message and the Value of Water Campaign’s new job analysis report that will be released at a special congressional hearing, Water = Jobs: The Economic Opportunity of Investing in Water Infrastructure, in Washington, D.C. this week.

 To support international-based outreach that ties into the wastewater theme, WEF distributed a toolkit for MAs that includes a customizable press release, sample tweets, and three supporting social media graphics for Twitter and Facebook. In addition, a generic version of that file, including messages for Facebook and Twitter that can be used year-round, is available at Generic Messaging for Social Media. Meanwhile, check out the World Water Day 2017 and Value of Water Campaign online toolkits for additional resources and materials, and happy World Water Day! 

 Posted (3/20/2017)

About Jenny Hartfelder, P.E., PMP

Jenny Hartfelder is the 2017-2018 President of the Water Environment Federation (WEF), an international organization of water quality professionals headquartered in Alexandria, Va.

Jenny is currently a vice president with Stantec, and serves as a national campaign manager out of Denver, Colorado. In this role, she provides strategic planning and leadership for the business development activities for the water sector across the United States. She also serves as a project manager and design engineer on numerous water and wastewater projects including utility privatization, master plans, preliminary and detailed designs, and engineering services during construction.

A WEF member since 1997, Jenny has held multiple leadership and committee roles within the Federation. She has served on the Stockholm Junior Water Prize (SJWP) Committee and the Public Communications and Outreach Committee for many years, chairing the SJWP Committee. Jenny also has served in the House of Delegates as the Speaker of the House and as a member of several HOD workgroups and committees. She is a member of the Select Society of Sanitary Sludge Shovelers and a recipient of the Arthur Sidney Bedell Award.

Also an active member of the Rocky Mountain Water Environment Association, Jenny chaired several committees including Public Education, Nominations, Awards, and the Joint Annual Conference committees, and has moved through the MA officer chairs serving as the president from 2006 to 2007.

Jenny is a registered professional engineer in the states of Colorado and Washington and is certified by the Project Management Institute (PMI) as a Project Management Professional (PMP). She received a B.S. in civil engineering in 1990 from Michigan Technological University, and an M.S. in civil engineering in 2002 from the University of Colorado-Denver.

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