Technical Resources

Books

Implementing Asset Management: A Practical Guide
Faced with the challenges of aging infrastructure, the lack of funding, and the desire to maintain affordable rates, while meeting the customers’ needs, utility managers are looking for more effective ways to make decisions about capital improvement and infrastructure maintenance.

Financing & Charges for Wastewater Systems
Focusing on issues of increasing urgency, this comprehensive manual of practice teaches the reader expert methods for handling all financial aspects of wastewater collection and treatment. Created and peer-reviewed by international authorities at the Water Environment Federation.

Fundamentals of Utility Management
This manual is intended for water and wastewater utility operations professionals who aspire to or have been promoted to management or leadership positions. Utility managers must be knowledgeable in the areas of personnel management, budgeting and financial management, and communications.

Effective Utility Management

Effective Utility Management (EUM) Primer for Water and Wastewater Utilities

Moving Toward Sustainability: Sustainable and Effective Practices for Creating Your Own Water Utility Roadmap - This document builds on the Effective Utility Management framework. It provides utilities of various sizes with a series of proven and effective practices to help achieve the outcomes in Effective Utility Management.

Roadmaps

WEF has been successful at striving toward asset management objectives through the use of a “maturity model” approach with the development of three Resource Recovery Roadmaps, on Energy (2012), and Nutrient Management (2014), and Water Reuse (2016). The goal of the Resource Recovery Roadmaps is to develop a high-level approach to help guide utilities and industry decision makers in issues when considering the NEW paradigm (Nutrients, Energy, and Water). The Roadmaps are brief and high-level to be accessible to all types of stakeholders, including public officials, utility managers, operators, engineers, and regulators. They do not "reinvent the wheel," with all of the great technical resources available. Rather, the focus is to help decision makers quickly understand the strategic issues inherent in a water reuse effort.

Survey Results: Envision Dashboard

Utilization of Sustainability Principles and the Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure's (ISI) Envision System in the U.S. Water Sector

This dashboard summarizes a 2021 WEF survey led by their Envision Task Force that queried respondents on the importance, reasoning and results of utilizing sustainability and Envision principles in their capital and O&M programs.

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