EditorialEducation and Certification Led to Career Advancement for Bob Davis When Preparation Met Opportunity Education and Certification Led to Career Advancement for Bob Davis When Preparation Met Opportunity After a long wastewater career in the paper industry, Bob Davis took a turn on the municipal side at a South Carolina recycled water facility. Appeared in print as "A Tale of Two Careers" By Steve Frank May 2020 Top Performer - Operator Order Digital Reprints Want a PDF of this article as it appeared in print? Order Here! Filed Under South Carolina Recycled Water System Water Environment Association of South Carolina Water Environment Federation Award Sign Me Up! Join your colleagues who already get great content delivered right to their inbox. Sign up Digital! If you don't want to bring your iPad into the bathroom, we can send you a magazine subscription for free! Subscribe to Print! Davis, shown with Vince Malphrus, special projects coordinator, in the plant control room, supervises a recycled water facility that delivers irrigation water to golf courses on an island that is a favorite tourist destination. At the ripe old age of 19, Bob Davis answered a help wanted newspaper ad from the International Paper research center in Tuxedo, New York. An aptitude test showed Davis to be pretty smart, and in the early 1970s, the company started him out in a pilot plant, a scaled-down version... Please login or register to view TPO articles. It's free, fast and easy! Popular Stories March 28, 2024 News Briefs: Divers to Give Pennsylvania Water Plant Deep Clean March 27, 2024 Cornell University Leads Clean Water Initiative Targeting Small Communities March 27, 2024 Explore 3 Versatile Submersible Pumps for the Water and Wastewater Industry March 26, 2024 How Responsive Leadership Ensures You're Seen as a 'Good Boss' March 26, 2024 High-Performance Effluent Pumps for Wastewater Transfer in 2024 March 25, 2024 News About Watson-Marlow, Centrisys/CNP, Cemen Tech and More Discussion Comments on this site are submitted by users and are not endorsed by nor do they reflect the views or opinions of COLE Publishing, Inc. Comments are moderated before being posted. Please enable JavaScript to view the comments.