No one likes a braggart. Maybe that’s why so few utility managers respond to our invitations to recognize their people. Because they think that would be bragging.That’s right in character: Infrastructure professionals typically are unassuming people and (a bit paradoxically) proud to be so. “I do my job, I do it well. That’s enough. My peers notice. If no one else does, so be it. Or maybe so much the better.”And that’s fine — except that one thing the profession badly needs is recognition. Caring for buried infrastructure takes money, and more of it than ever as pipes continue to
