As wastewater treatment moves toward recource recovery, the basics of treatment plants will have primary clarification, activated sludge aeration basins and secondary clarifiers, and anaerobic digestion. Each of these is comprehensively covered to give attendees the fundamental knowledge they need in fulfilling the operations professional's personal mission statement: To remove pollutants from the incoming water while complying with all permits - water, air, and land - and cover them to recycable biosolids as sustainably and cost effectively as possible.