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January has come and gone, which means we've wrapped up another Annual Conference & Exhibit. This yearly event, the largest water quality show in New England, once again featured a full program for the more than 2,000 water professionals who attended.
For the third year in a row, we teamed up with New England Water Works Association (NEWWA) to kick off the conference with the Young Professionals Summit.
The full conference began on Monday, and the schedule for the remaining three days was packed with 34 technical sessions, over 200 exhibitors, our first-ever Innovation Pavilion, student and professional poster presentations, and various committee and business meetings.
Scroll through the rest of this newsletter for more on the Conference, including links to event photos and a spotlight article on how student outreach led to a research team's first attendance of the Annual Conference and one student's first post-grad job in the water industry.
Also in this newsletter, information on our upcoming Spring Meeting, links to a Sustainability Survey, water events to add to your calendar, and more!
As always, we invite you to contact Jordan Gosselin at jgosselin@newea.org with committee news you would like to share in future editions.
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Submit an Abstract for the Spring Meeting
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We are now accepting the submission of abstracts for presentations and papers for the 2019 Spring Meeting. This yearly event, which will take place from June 2-5 in New Castle, NH, attracts over 300 engineers, consultants, scientists, operators, and students. The program features several days of exhibit displays, tours, technical sessions, student presentations, and the Operators Challenge competition.
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Catch Up on Annual Conference Coverage
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From January 27-30, NEWEA gathered together with more than 2,000 other water professionals for the Annual Conference & Exhibit. The program for this four-day event featured 34 technical sessions, over 200 exhibitors, the Young Professionals Summit, our first-ever Innovation Pavilion, and more.
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Mark Your Calendars for Water Week
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Help build Congressional support for clean water in New England! Join NEWEA, WEF, NACWA, WRF and other national organizations to support water quality and to dialog with Congressional representatives from the New England states. This special event will take place April 3-4, 2019 in Washington, DC.
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NEWEA and New England Water Works Association's (NEWWA) Water for People committees are once again teaming up to put on the Deer Island Dash 5K & Kids Fest. All proceeds from this event, which will take place on May 4 at the Deer Island Treatment Plant in Winthrop, MA, will benefit Water for People.
Stay tuned for more information about this race.
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Join the Plant Operations Committee for a Conference & Exhibit
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The Plant Operations Committee is hosting a one-day specialty conference and exhibit on March 21 at 8:00AM at the Courtyard Marriott in Billerica, MA. Additional information will soon be available.
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Submit Ideas for the 2018 New England Stormy Awards
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The New England Stormwater Collaborative, formed by NEWEA, New England Water Works Association, and the New England Chapter of the American Public Works Association, is looking for submissions for the 2018 Stormy Awards. As part of its continued efforts to identify simple, imaginative, and inventive stormwater ideas, the collaborative invites submission of ideas in one of three categories: stormwater management/green infrastructure; political support/funding/outreach; and program efficiency/technology.
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Pictured from left to right: Corey Theriault, Kate Edwards, Jenn Lachmayr, Evan Raffi, Amy Anderson, Debbie Hoyes, and Scott Haynes.
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Student Outreach Success
As part of an ongoing effort to enhance outreach to students, NEWEA has been scheduling Executive Committee Meetings at colleges and universities, specifically at institutions from which our committee chairs and Executive Committee members graduated. These meetings have been introduced with the intention of increasing networking between NEWEA’s members and leadership and students majoring in environmental sciences, engineering, and other water related fields.
In November 2018, select NEWEA committee chairs gathered at Roger Williams University in Bristol, RI and presented to a room full of engineering and environmental studies students. These NEWEA members discussed their career paths, their experience as water professionals, and the benefits of a career in the water industry. Following their presentations, students were given the opportunity to meet with NEWEA’s members and network, hear advice on job searching, and receive guidance on navigating their career.
As a result of being introduced to NEWEA at this meeting, Evan Raffi, pictured above, and a team of fellow Roger Williams students, comprised of Annelise Boylan, Daniel Petrovic, Andrew Gaughan, and Tarek Aldawalibi, learned about the opportunity for undergraduate students to present research and capstone projects during the Undergraduate Student Poster Competition at the Annual Conference & Exhibit, NEWEA’s premier event.
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Sustainability Outreach
The Sustainability Committee wants your input!! Help the committee keep their conversation around sustainability relevant and relatable to YOU, NEWEA’s broad and diverse membership, by filling out the Sustainability Survey.
The committee's goal is to understand which topics related to sustainability are most relevant to members, the region and the industry. Using the survey results, they hope to tailor their committee, conference sessions and future webinars based upon what they hear from you, our members!
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