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Associations Release Utility Management Integration Guide

The Water Environment Federation (WEF) of Alexandria, VA, and the Association

of Metropolitan Sewerage Agencies (AMSA) of Washington, DC, have released a new

management guide for wastewater utilities. "Continual Improvement in Utility

Management: A Framework for Integration" was developed under a cooperative

agreement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). It addresses the

need to improve utility performance through more effective application and

integration of management tools.

"This publication represents an important step forward and addresses a need

that our members and other utility managers have identified", said WEF

Executive Director Bill Bertera. "It is unique in that it provides utility

managers will information not previously available and complements other

guidance covering individual management initiatives."

Development of the guide was recommended by a workgroup of utility managers and

expert advisors during an initial phase of the project. Workgroup members

identified integration of utility management initiatives under a continual

improvement management system framework as a proven and sustainable approach.

They also concluded that utility managers need clear information on the

interrelationship between initiatives and a "roadmap" to help them integrate

these initiatives under a common management systems framework.

AMSA Executive Director Ken Kirk noted that, "In many ways the guide's strength

lies in the fact that almost 50 professionals, the majority utility managers or

senior staff, volunteered their expertise and experience to create it. We are

very pleased to have jointly sponsored its development with WEF and EPA."

For more information and to obtain a copy of the guide, visit the WEF web site

at www.wef.org, or the AMSA site at www.amsa-cleanwater.org.