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Blog Post Round-Up: Infrastructure Week 2018
May 18, 2018Today marks the end of the sixth annual National Infrastructure Week—a week of events, media coverage, and issue advocacy across the country to elevate infrastructure as a critical issue impacting … Read More about Blog Post Round-Up: Infrastructure Week 2018
Drinking Water & Wastewater, General InformationAct Locally, Save Federally: The National Flood Insurance CRS Program
May 10, 2018The UNC Environmental Finance Center (EFC) typically focuses on the role of local governments in directly providing and funding basic community environmental services such as water, wastewater, stormwater, and solid … Read More about Act Locally, Save Federally: The National Flood Insurance CRS Program
Drinking Water & Wastewater, Watersheds, Wetlands & StormwaterCalifornia’s Legislative Effort to Address Drinking Water Affordability
May 2, 2018Water systems across the country have approached drinking water affordability using different metrics and innovative solutions. While other parts of the country take on affordability at a local level, California … Read More about California’s Legislative Effort to Address Drinking Water Affordability
Drinking Water & Wastewater, General InformationThree Strengths and Weaknesses of Water Quality Trading Policies
April 26, 2018What types of environmental policies are protecting your local waterways? When the US Environmental Protection Agency was first created, most regulations followed a command-and-control model in which polluters must meet … Read More about Three Strengths and Weaknesses of Water Quality Trading Policies
Drinking Water & Wastewater, General InformationThe New Kid on the Block: Carrboro’s Stormwater Management Utility
April 19, 2018How Carrboro’s creation of a Stormwater Management Utility exemplifies the increasing need for stormwater finance options. Effective July 1, 2017, the Town of Carrboro followed in the footsteps of local … Read More about The New Kid on the Block: Carrboro’s Stormwater Management Utility
General Information, Watersheds, Wetlands & StormwaterWhat 10 Years of Georgia Water Utility Data can Reveal
April 3, 2018Co-author Neil Sullivan is a Rates Specialist at the Environmental Finance Center. Since 2007, the Environmental Finance Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has been conducting water … Read More about What 10 Years of Georgia Water Utility Data can Reveal
Drinking Water & Wastewater, General InformationEnvironmental Infrastructure Programs under the Omnibus Budget Bill
April 2, 2018On Friday, March 23, President Trump signed a $1.3 trillion FY 2018 spending bill that will fund the federal government through September 30. This budget funds several environmental infrastructure programs that help … Read More about Environmental Infrastructure Programs under the Omnibus Budget Bill
Drinking Water & WastewaterThe State of Water Debt in North Carolina, Part 1
March 19, 2018Guest post by Maddie Atkins Water and wastewater infrastructure needs in the US continue to grow. The EPA Drinking Water Needs Survey and Clean Watershed Needs Survey estimate that a … Read More about The State of Water Debt in North Carolina, Part 1
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