Small communities face the same basic water infrastructure issues as large cities do. The difference is that they are more challenged to find the funding to make needed improvements and updates.
Dr. A.R. “Bob” Rubin has spent decades helping smaller communities deal cost-effectively with issues around wastewater treatment and stormwater. He is a professor emeritus at North Carolina State University in biological and agricultural engineering and has worked extensively with the Water Environment Federation on rural water quality and wastewater management. He has also worked with the U.S. EPA on small and decentralized treatment systems, including solutions that revolve around individual and cluster
