In an effort to continue to highlight sustainable and innovative technologies, processes and strategies that are moving our water industry into the future, the NEWEA Sustainability Committee decided to offer a regular newsletter vignette focused on such topics. We hope that through our offerings you might find yourself informed of something new, interested in applying […]
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Green Steps – From the Sustainability Committee
The Sustainability Committee recently completed (February 2019) an informal survey of NEWEA members to better understand how the membership views sustainability, and what our committee can do to further promote sustainable principles and practices within the wastewater community and NEWEA’s membership. The eight-question survey included the following five sustainability-focused questions: How would you describe a […]
Green Steps – From the Sustainability Committee (part 2)
In our second installment from the NEWEA Sustainability Committee, we wanted to highlight the new version of Envision, version 3, that was released earlier this summer, and offer some thoughts on why utilities here in New England should consider using the framework. Envision, the infrastructure industry’s equivalent of Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) […]
Green Steps – From the Sustainability Committee (Part 3)
By Courtney Eaton In this installment of Green Steps, we wanted to highlight a few upcoming initiatives from our very own NEWEA Sustainability Committee. First, a little history of our committee. We started as a standing committee around 2008 when NEWEA members recognized an opportunity to make the operation of NEWEA and specifically NEWEA conferences […]
Sustainable Collection Systems Conference Held in May
The NEWEA Sustainability & Collection Systems Committees held a Joint Specialty Conference on May 1, 2017 at the Doubletree Hotel in Westborough, MA. Nearly 100 professionals from the region (and some from as far away as Ireland) participated in the event. The participants included consulting engineering firms, management and operations teams from multi ple municipalities, […]
