WEFTEC 2020

SCHAFFHAUSEN, Switzerland (Jan. 28, 2014) – Xylem won a contract valued at approximately $2.75 million to supply Xylem’s Wedeco-brand ultraviolet (UV) technologies to a wastewater treatment facility in the Vigo region of southwest Spain. With a treatment capacity of 147,000 cubic meters per day, benefiting 800,000 inhabitants, the facility will be the largest bio-filtration and UV wastewater treatment plant in Spain.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (Oct. 17, 2013) – A record number of 22,589 registrants and 971 companies using 297,400 net square feet of exhibit space has designated WEFTEC 2013—the Water Environment Federation’s (WEF’s) 86th Annual Technical Exhibition and Conference—as the largest in the organization’s 86-year history.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (Oct. 8, 2013) – The Water Environment Federation (WEF) and the Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI), two leading water organizations, have agreed to collaborate on a broad spectrum of water issues of mutual interest and benefit to the field. The agreement was signed in Chicago at WEFTEC 2013®, the world’s largest annual water quality conference and exhibition.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (Sept. 30, 2013) – An impressive lineup of high profile national and international speakers have been confirmed to headline some of the most highly anticipated events of WEFTEC 2013. The Water Environment Federation’s 86th Annual Technical Exhibition and Conference will be held Oct. 5-9, 2013 at McCormick Place in Chicago.

DENVER (Sept. 17, 2013) – Bruce Hauk, a 17-year water industry professional, has been appointed to the Partnership for Safe Water Steering Committee for a three-year term.

CHICAGO (Sept. 1, 2013) – The world’s municipal wastewater plant operators will spend $1.2 billion in 2014 for equipment to separate particles from the sewage inflows. This is the most recent forecast in Sedimentation/Centrifugation World Markets published by the McIlvaine Company.