Rebecca West is the Chief Operating Officer of Renewable Water Resources (ReWa), located in Greenville SC and has served in the water profession for over 37 years. Previously, she served as the Director of Program Management for AECOM, Greenville, SC, Chief Operating Officer of Greenville Water, Chief Operating Officer of Spartanburg Water and the President of RFW Consulting Services, LLC. Rebecca is a graduate of Wofford College and served as the President of the Water Environment Federation from 2008-2009, which is an international professional water organization of made up of over 35,000 individual members and 75 affiliated member associations representing water professionals around the world. In addition, Rebecca participated in a People-to-People Delegation of Water Professionals to China in 2000 and led a Delegation of Water Professionals to South Africa in 2009.  Rebecca is a WEF Fellow, a graduate of Leadership SC and served on USEPA’s Climate Ready Utility Task Force which worked to define the best management practices for water utilities in the US to utilize to prepare for the impacts of climate change. In 2015, Rebecca participated in a special task force convened by The Johnson Foundation that focused on Optimizing the Structure and Scale of Urban Water Infrastructure. The resulting report of the task force was incorporated in the newly released report from The Johnson Foundation entitled “Charting New Waters – A Call to Action to Address U.S. Freshwater Challenges”. Lastly, Rebecca established the Biosolids Management Program for Renewable Water Resources in the early 1990’s and lead the development of a Biosolids Operator Certification Program for South Carolina.