Hank Trent embodies an old adage: Do something you love and you’ll be good at it.Trent gave up a career in criminal justice, discovered water treatment and made it a calling. Today he’s superintendent of the Ed Thomas Water Treatment Plant in Burlington, North Carolina, and operator in responsible charge at the plant and the city’s JD Mackintosh Water Treatment Plant.“I saw a newspaper ad for a water operator, and it sounded interesting,” Trent recalls. “When I applied and checked out the plant, it was amazing. I started working there, and I took to it like a fish in water.
