Author: EWSETA Water Sector Team

When you turn on your tap, you expect clean, safe water. You don’t think about the individual who made it possible. You don’t see the Process Controllers who work all night long, ensuring that water and wastewater treatment processes continue uninterrupted. You don’t see the countless decisions and adjustments made every day from chemical dosing, treatment processes optimisation to laboratory testing and regulatory compliance monitoring. You don’t see the professional whose decisions protect them from waterborne diseases, prevent untreated wastewater from polluting rivers and keep entire communities healthy. Yet when those professionals are absent, or when there simply aren’t enough…