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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Congratulations to the 2024 WEF Award Recipients!
WEF is pleased to congratulate 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. Want to learn about this year’s list of recipients?
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Students & Young Professionals Career Fair: Submit Your Resume & Network with Top Employers
Attending WEFTEC and looking to boost your water industry career? Join the Students and Young Professionals Career Fair on Oct. 7!
Meet 25 top employers, and take advantage of private interview booths for one-on-one sessions. Submit your resume for the 2024 WEFTEC Resume Book by Sept. 5 to get noticed by sponsoring companies before the event. Questions? Contact blovett@wef.org.
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Apply for the Stockholm Junior Water Prize Equipment Access Grant!
WEF is excited to partner with HACH for the second consecutive year to empower high school students with access to cutting-edge water quality testing equipment. 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.
Grants are awarded based on demonstrated need and interest in water science. Don't miss this opportunity; submit your application by Oct. 25. Awardees will be notified by the end of October.
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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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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
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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 and Palantir 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.
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