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William Wesley Eckenfelder Jr., 83, a pioneer in the field of water treatment and authority in industrial wastewater management, died March 28.
Eckenfelder, known as the "godfather" or "grandfather" of industrial wastewater management by colleagues and students, most recently worked as a technical director at AquAeTer (Nashville, Tenn.), according to a Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tenn.) School of Engineering news release. Throughout his career he was the founder of several companies, and an environmental engineering professor at Manhattan College (Riverdale, N.Y.), University of Texas-Austin, and Vanderbilt University. He also authored more than 30 technical books and hundreds of journal articles, the news release says.
"He influenced and taught thousands of...