Howard Carter wants people to know that wastewater treatment plants are in the business of protecting — not polluting — the environment. He sees promoting green technology and energy efficiency as ways to help change the public's perceptions.
"The industry, at least in the past, did a very poor job of promoting what we do," says Carter, director of the Water Resource Recovery Division for Saco, Maine, on the Atlantic coast just south of Portland. "The industry has tended to stay out of sight, out of mind," until a main broke or a combined
