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Wastewater Has the Best Green Jobs Workers Don't Know About


Wastewater Has the Best Green Jobs Workers Don’t Know About
Wastewater offers high-tech jobs at the leading edge of sustainability and public health. But aging workers are leaving, creating a shortage of skilled workers. Public utilities need to step up their recruitment game.
Carl Smith, Senior Staff Writer
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April 7, 2021
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The more than 800,000 miles of public sewers in the U.S. and the 500,000 miles of private sewers that link to them are long enough to circle the globe more than 50 times. They dwarf the mere 47,876 miles of the interstate highway system.
According to the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), local governments spend $20 billion a year in capital expenditures on sewers, and $30 billion a year operating and maintaining them. In 2016, a U.S. EPA survey determined that $271 billion was needed to improve and maintain the vast wastewater infrastructure, mo ....

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