Water is not only important for life. It is the economic engine of the world's developed nations and is the key to a high quality of life for communities.The presentation will provide an informative personal overview of the foundational role that chemistry played in a forty-one (41) year water and wastewater public and private sector career.  It will describe chemistry's influence from entry level employment to positions of responsible executive leadership.  The presentation will convey to the audience how chemistry paved a road for personal achievement and service in the public and private sector.  More specifically it will focus on the following topics. Chemistry as a catalyst for critical thinking skills.The importance of chemistry as a symbiotic knowledge base to the civil and environmental engineering skills employed in in the water and wastewater profession.The need for young professional chemists in the water industry

Chemistry: The gateway discipline to a water sector career

247th National Meeting (2014)

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