When Markus Owens started working at the Honolulu Department of Environmental Services, he saw plenty of materials on recycling and trash, but nothing on wastewater.As public information officer for the department, he set out to change that — by writing a children’s book. “If you want to educate parents, educate the children first,” says Owens, who joined the department in 2008. “Kids come home and tell their parents what they learned in school that day. They become great stewards for the rest of their lives and teach their own children to do the same.”The Department of Environmental Services treats about
