“Water runs through my blood,” says Lynn Campbell.“And it probably ran through the blood of my ancestors.”That’s not an overstatement. Campbell’s grandfather, father, brothers, uncles and cousins were well drillers and water system managers across the South. When public water and wastewater systems started growing, his father became manager of the wastewater system in Arab, Alabama.Campbell has continued the tradition. He began as a teenager, working odd jobs and sometimes in the summer helping his father at the wastewater treatment plants. He began his water career in 1974. Today, as vice president of Water Resources Operations and Managed Maintenance in
