I have never worked in a wastewater treatment plant, but I have worked in and around the wastewater industry for a fair number of years, as a community relations consultant, as a marketing adviser to equipment manufacturers, and as a magazine editor.Back in the early 1980s, I spent one full year leading a metropolitan clean-water agency’s effort to win public acceptance for a biosolids land application program. During that year I found that my line of work did not make for good cocktail party conversation.In fact, I ended up thanking the stars that I had met and married my wife
