The Importance of Incentives in Wastewater Management

The wastewater industry is fragmented in North America, the fact that every community has the capacity to make faster decisions and actually do projects. The US utilities have nimbleness because they're smaller. And from a water perspective, I'm also kind of worried about the quality of wastewater that we as a community are generating. It's not just carbon or nitrogen or phosphorus. We're putting in painkillers like everything that you ingest in your body that you then put down the toilet. He says he sees good work happening but it's happening too slowly.