You’ll benefit personally and professionally by joining the NYWEA:
- By keeping current on technical developments
- By keeping current on regulatory developments
- By networking with like professionals
- Gain Sales and Marketing Contacts by advertising, exhibiting and one-on-one contacts
- Enhance relationships with regulatory agencies, and their personnel
- Create opportunities to make a contribution to more effective water environment activities
- Take advantage of opportunities for publication in WEF/NYWEA magazines and journals
- Learn and practice leadership by becoming an officer, serve on state and local boards, committees, etc.
- Opportunities to present papers at chapter and statewide meetings.
- Social interaction with all environmental professionals involved
- Opportunities for continuing and advanced education (operator recertification)
- Support by people engaged in like activities
- Gain professional recognition and personal development
Goals
The goals of the NYWEA are:
- To support effective water quality management programs at the national, state and local levels.
- To promote public knowledge of the technical, economic, social and organizational issues of water quality management.
- To provide educational and career opportunities for water quality professionals through conferences, workshops and publications.
- To advance scientific knowledge of water quality management through encouragement and support of research and special studies.
- To promote the proper design, operation and maintenance of wastewater collection and treatment facilities through personnel development, technical research, case studies, networking and mutual assistance.
- To promote the recognition and support of municipal officials for proper facility operation and maintenance.
- To provide information on laws and regulations affecting the water environment to local elected officials, legislative bodies and our membership.
Our Members
Members include civil, design and environmental engineers; biologists, chemists, local and state government officials, treatment plant managers and operators, laboratory technicians, students, professors, lawyers, environmental scientists, equipment manufacturers and distributors.