After a long and multifaceted career that has combined government, business, and water, Nicholas DeBenedictis is retiring. Well, sort of. A man like DeBenedictis doesn't quite retire. The genial Chief Executive Officer of Aqua America ended his contract in June, though he will stay on as chairman and continues to fulfill other leadership roles in the Philadelphia, PA, community. As a young water resources engineer myself, it's hard for me to imagine retirement, much less a company story that dates back to 1886-exactly 100 years before my birth. That year, a group of Swarthmore College professors were tasked with supplying water to Pennsylvania's Springfield Township. The group later became Aqua America, and when DeBenedictis joined in 1992, the company was still a single-region water utility. Today, however, Aqua provides water and wastewater services to three million people in eight states and continues to grow.
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机译：尼古拉斯·德·本尼迪克迪斯（Nicholas DeBenedictis）经过漫长而多面的职业生涯，将政府，商业和水结合在一起，现已退休。好吧，有点。像DeBenedictis这样的人并不退休。 Aqua America这位谦虚的首席执行官于6月结束了他的合同，尽管他将继续担任董事长一职，并继续担任宾夕法尼亚州费城社区的其他领导职务。作为一名年轻的水资源工程师，我很难想象退休，更不用说公司的历史可以追溯到1886年，即我出生前100年。那年，一群斯沃斯莫尔学院的教授受命为宾夕法尼亚州的斯普林菲尔德镇供水。该集团后来成为Aqua America，当DeBenedictis于1992年加入时，该公司仍是一个单一区域的水务公司。然而，今天，Aqua向八个州的300万人提供水和废水服务，并且还在继续增长。
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