Industrial Water Community
The purpose of WEF’s Industrial Water Community (IWC) is to be a resource on industrial wastewater treatment, design, management, operation, and maintenance, as well as the promotion and improvement of industrial treatment technologies.
The IWC was established in 1943; revised in October 1994; revised in 1998, merged with the Hazardous Wastes community, and became Industrial Wastes in September 2002; changed its name to Industrial Wastewater in January 2010; and changed its name to Industrial Water in 2022.
The community is involved in a number of activities to improve the technology of industrial water and wastewater treatment, recycling, and reuse. The community meets in person twice a year, once at the WEF Mid-year meeting and at WEFTEC in October, in addition to having bi-monthly conference calls to continue progress throughout the year. The community provides technical information exchange; professional networking opportunities; communication of regulations, and policy and guidance. Programs addressing industrial water, wastewater, and hazardous wastes treatment, disposal, prevention, remediation, reuse, and minimization are developed by the community.
The community's overall charge includes the following:
- Development and support of conferences, workshops, seminars, training, and technical sessions.
- Development and support of publications related to industrial water treatment topics.
- Development and support of awards in the industrial water treatment area.
- Development of public outreach materials expressing technical industrial water treatment issues.
- Partnering with other organizations and communities in the development of industrial water treatment activities.
Chair
Abigail Antolovich, 2024 - 2026
Tel: (303)598-7743
Email: abigail.antolovich@wigen.com
Vice-Chair
William Bratt, 2024 - 2026
Email: wbratt@woodardcurran.com
2nd Vice Chair
Dave Riedel, 2024-2026
Email: david.riedel@arcadis-us.com
Past Chair
Brian Arntsen, 2024 - 2026
Tel: 905-465-3030, ext. 3060
Email: brian.arntsen@veolia.com
Staff Manager
Lisa McFadden
Tel: 703-684-2400 x7060
Email: lmcfadden@wef.org
Focus Groups
The IWC has several focus groups (both organizational and technical) that community members can participate in. These focus groups help the IWC run, as well as produce products to get the word out about what's happening and being talked about in the industrial wastewater realm.
- Water for Power
- Upstream Oil & Gas
- Refining
- Food & Beverage
- Chemicals & Manufacturing
- Editorial & Publications
- Industrial Award Nominations
- Member Association Outreach
- Industry Outreach
Resources
- Awards
The community supports the Industrial Water Quality Achievement Award given every year to a corporation or engineering firm that demonstrates excellence in water quality improvement, or prevention of water quality degradation.
Additionally, the community supports the Hazardous Wastes Management Award recognizing an individual for their efforts in promoting quality technical and/or management performance in activities and professionalism within and on behalf of the field of hazardous waste management.
- Industrial Water Resources Practice Area
For more information on resources like books, manuals of practice, fact sheets, related websites, and more, visit the Industrial Wastewater Resource Page.
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