In the two years since I started working for COLE Publishing, I’ve occasionally thought about how I used to perceive the water and wastewater industry.On a personal level, I was like many people — I didn’t give much thought to it at all. Every day I was enjoying the benefits of infrastructure that people worked hard to maintain, but it was just an afterthought.In my work life, I actually wrote about the industry, but as a reporter covering the city government beat for my local newspaper, it wasn’t in the way I do now. I recall taking a tour of















