News | April 5, 2011

Registration And Housing Now Open For WEFTEC 2011 In Los Angeles

Source: Water Environment Federation (WEF) - WEFTEC

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Registration and housing is now open for WEFTEC 2011, the Water Environment Federation's 84th annual technical exhibition and conference. This year's event will take place October 15-19, 2011 at the Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles, Calif.

If it's about water, it will be at WEFTEC. As the largest annual water quality conference and exhibition in the world, WEFTEC continues to offer the best educational, business and networking opportunities in the water profession today. This year's world-class technical program will feature 115 technical sessions, 27 workshops and eight local facility tours. A wide range of topics and focus areas allow attendees to design their own, unique learning experience with the opportunity to earn continuing education credits.

The 2011 focus areas include facility operations and wastewater treatment; nutrients; collection systems; residuals and biosolids; utility management; water reuse and management; stormwater and green infrastructure; sustainability and energy management; industrial wastewater; watershed management; and more. As a complement to the technical program, WEFTEC's unrivaled exhibition will provide access to more than 1,000 exhibiting companies and their technical experts showing the latest developments, research, solutions, and cutting-edge technologies in the field.

Other conference highlights include the Opening General Session where Dr. Rita Colwell, a distinguished professor from the University of Maryland and Johns Hopkins University's Bloomberg School of Public Health, the 2010 Stockholm Water Prize Laureate, and a world-renowned expert on waterborne diseases, will deliver the technical keynote address. She'll be followed by a special presentation from Doc Hendley, founder and president of Wine to Water and one of CNN's 2009 Heroes. This massive conference also includes poster sessions, the design competition, the 24th annual Operations Challenge competition, and much, much more.

For more information, visit www.weftec.org

About WEF
Formed in 1928, the Water Environment Federation (WEF) is a not-for-profit technical and educational organization with 36,000 individual members and 75 affiliated Member Associations representing water quality professionals around the world. WEF and its Member Associations proudly work to achieve our mission of preserving and enhancing the global water environment. For more information, visit www.wef.org

SOURCE: Water Environment Federation (WEF) - WEFTEC