South East Water is a state-owned corporation providing water, sewerage and recycled water services to more than 1.65 million people in the southeast of Melbourne, Australia. Joseph Harmes has documented the evolution and acceptance curve of grinder pumps and low-pressure sewer systems for two decades. He’s profiled overseas installations in Baja California, Mexico and Turawa, Poland, as well as the Western Hemisphere’s biggest LPS installation of more than 5,000 grinder pumps in Indiana.