Overseas Experience Inspires NAWT Scholarship Winner to Join Wastewater Industry

Each year, the National Association of Wastewater Technicians — a group dedicated to the sanitary liquid waste management industry — offers scholarship awards to those studying in the field of wastewater transport and treatment. One of the 2019 Hapchuk Scholarship winners is Jennie Callahan, who first became interested in wastewater after meeting a civil engineer restoring temples in Angkor Wat, Cambodia. Years later, attending a graduate program in environmental engineering at the Colorado School of Mines, she cites the experience as a catalyst for joining the wastewater treatment industry. “He [the civil engineer] was helping restore the temple complexes out in Angkor