Throughout the school year, Eastern Municipal Water District staff are helping to educate the students who one day may be taking their jobs. A year ago, EMWD launched a modernization of its longstanding education program. The focus is on developing its future workforce through a yearslong Environmental Water Resource Career Technical Education (CTE) program. The result is that EMWD staff can promote water industry careers to the industry’s future workforce. That program – the first of its kind in the region – was recently honored by the California Association of Sanitation Agencies (CASA) with its Excellence in Public Outreach and Education Award. CASA is an industry organization committed to the collection, treatment, and recycling of wastewater.