Management Issues Group Meeting Summary and Proposed Research Plan

Abstract

Attended by Water Environment Research Foundation (WERF) and the American Water Works Assocation Research Foundation (AwwaRF), the objective of this meeting was to develop a strategic multi-year research plan for water and wastewater utility management including detailed project descriptions. The multi-year plan was used by AwwaRF as a component of its Strategic Research Plan (SRP). WERF considered funding research based on ideas developed at this meeting on a case-by-case basis. Published in 1998.

Originally funded as WERF project 97-WWF-1CO.

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Management Issues Group Meeting Summary and Proposed Research Plan

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Management Issues Group Meeting Summary and Proposed Research Plan

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