Calling all Undergraduate and Graduate students! Are you completing a capstone project? Consider participating in NEWEA’s 2nd Annual Student Design Competition (SDC). The SDC promotes “real world” design experience for students interested in water engineering and sciences. The Student Design Competition (SDC) is based on problems relating to the environmental field. Student design teams will compete in […]
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Deer Island 2018 Teacher Training Workshop
The NEWEA Public Education Committee hosted a Teacher Training Workshop on Tuesday, August 14, 2018 at MWRA’s Deer Island Wastewater Treatment Plant. About 40 elementary and high school teachers participated in the event which included a tour of Deer Island, a presentation on the NEWEA school program with watershed and floodplain model demonstrations, a workshop […]
Early Registration Ends January 6th for NEWEA 2017 Annual Conference
New England’s Largest Water Quality Event! January 22-25, 2017 NEWEA’s three-day technical conference and exhibit consistantly attracts 2000+ water quality professionals and features 200+ exhibit displays and 33 technical sessions covering practical applications, project experience and lessons learned in all areas of the wastewater industry. View the 2017 Annual Conference Preliminary Program WHAT’S NEW? NEWEA is […]
Hands-On Training Provided at Operations Challenge Training Day
The annual Operations Challenge Training Day, held this year on April 19th , was another great success. Operations Challenge is the “Wastewater Olympics” for professionals in the wastewater treatment industry. Teams of 4 members compete in 5 separate events: operations, maintenance, laboratory, safety and collection systems Veteran competitors and new recruits representing teams from Massachusetts, […]
Happy World Toilet Day – November 19
Send a World Toilet Day E-Card through Water For People. You only get one day a year to tell everyone you know how much you value your toilet. http://support.waterforpeople.org/site/Ecard?ecard_id=1341&autologin=true
Hartford, CT Water Pollution Control Facility Hosted a Joint POO & BREW
NEWEA’s Young Professional (YP) committee held another successful Poo and Brew at the Hartford, CT Water Pollution Control Facility (HWPCF). The New York Water Environment Association (NYWEA), Connecticut Association of Water Pollution Control Authorities (CAWPCA), and the Connecticut Water Pollution Abatement Association (CWPAA) also co-sponsored this event. Over 40 water professionals from New York, Connecticut, […]
High Water Quality Means Healthy Shark Population in New England
The New England Water Environment Association (NEWEA) held its Annual Spring Meeting & Exhibit at the Sea Crest Beach Hotel in North Falmouth, MA with a bit of an edgy topic: White Sharks. As Cynthia Wigren, Executive Director of the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy (AWSC), explained in the opening session, as an apex predator, white […]
In review: 2014 Spring Meeting in Rockport, Maine
NEWEA’s 2014 Spring Meeting and Exhibit was held June 1-4 at the Samoset Resort in Rockport, Maine. With a guest program featuring an elephant sanctuary visit and a session on the emergency response to Maine’s 2013 ice storm, the meeting was one of our most exciting and successful yet. The weekend began with the President’s […]
Interview with 2011 Connecticut State Winner
U.S. Stockholm Jr. Water Prize 2011 Connecticut State Winner: William Hallisey Greenwich High School Project title: “Electrified Nanoscale Architecture in Mixed Matrix Membranes as a Means of Rapid Throughput Water Sterilization,” We’ve asked William Hallisey, last year’s Connecticut State Winner, to answer some questions about his experience participating in the U.S. Stockholm Jr. Water Prize Competition held in […]
Join us at the NEWEA Congressional Briefing
Speak up about the value of water and the need to invest in innovation and infrastructure.This is a great opportunity for our membership and elected officials to join together to discuss water, wastewater, and stormwater infrastructure isses facing communities in the Northeast. We look forward to meeting with you and providing you with the latest […]
