One obvious benefit of getting out of the office and into the field is seeing things from a new perspective. I had that privilege back in March when the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency invited me to speak at its annual Wastewater Operators’ Conference.
I gave a keynote presentation Wednesday morning, then stayed through the following morning for the exhibit session, meeting operators from the state next door to mine and handing out copies of TPO and its sister publication, Water System Operator (WSO).
I was surprised (maybe I shouldn’t have been) to find industrial clean-water operators very well represented among the 500



























