The following article was originally published in the Summer 2023 issue of Indiana Digester.
The fact that women represent 80% of the current IWEA Board recently caught my attention. As a woman who has been working as a wastewater treatment and collection design consultant since 1999, this is quite a change from my experiences when I first started working in the industry. I was curious to know if the perspectives of other women in this industry aligned with my own. I divided the wastewater industry into three groups (design/consulting, construction, and utility roles), and then reached out to women in those roles, with a range of experience levels, to discuss their views. Hopefully in doing so, you can identify with at least one perspective in this article.