Water Environment FederationWEF awards & utility recognition
More than 30 categories across collection systems, treatment innovation, plant operations and Utility of the Future Today.
- Reach
- Member association → national
- Run by
- Water Environment Federation
- Disciplines
- Water & Wastewater · Municipal
Who enters
Entered through WEF member associations, by utilities, consulting engineers and individual members depending on the category.
Categories include
A sample, not the full list — these programs restructure their categories between years. Water Environment Federation publishes the current one.
- Collection Systems
- Treatment Plant Innovation
- Plant Operations
- Utility of the Future Today
- Laboratory Analyst Excellence
- Public Communication and Outreach
The route, start to finish
- 01Enter through the state or regional WEF member association
- 02Member association winners advance to national recognition
What it signals when you’re hiring
Metro Associates’ own read, not Water Environment Federation’s.
Water and wastewater hiring turns on process knowledge that is difficult to test in an interview. WEF recognition is one of the few external markers that separates someone who has commissioned and operated a plant from someone who has only designed one.
Roles whose work ends up in an entry like this
- Process Engineer
- Wastewater Treatment Designer
- Utility Engineer
- Collection Systems Engineer
We staff the firms that enter. We don’t enter.
Metro Associates is a recruiting firm, and a recruiting firm is not eligible for an engineering award. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or a winner of the WEF awards & utility recognition. The Water Environment Federation name and mark belong to Water Environment Federation, shown here to identify the program it runs. What we do is place the engineers whose work goes into entries like it.