This paper, presented at the 58th annual meeting of the Texas Water Utilities Association, attempts to point out the need for manpower planning for the wastewater treatment workforce of Texas. As reasons for manpower planning, this document discloses estimates of 1400-1500 new jobs, 1300 of which will be in wastewater treatment facilities of 1 MGD or more in Texas by the year 1980. In addition to increasing demand for operators and other trained personnel, there will be a substantial increase in needed training funds. Due to environmental regulations, it is necessary for local governments to meet these demands. This requires long range planning. This document reveals that the manpower planning efforts in Texas consist of a careful assessment of the present wastewater treatment workforce's movements into, through, and out of the field, careful staffing and training projections, and a computer housed data base of these assessments and projections. (MR)