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When Providing Water Service is Not the Water System’s Primary Business
June 12, 2013Glenn Barnes is senior project director with the Environmental Finance Center based at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the co-director of the Smart Management for … Read More about When Providing Water Service is Not the Water System’s Primary Business
Drinking Water & Wastewater, Smart Management for Small Water SystemsDoes Governing Structure Determine the Financial Health of a Water Utility?
June 3, 2013Stacey Isaac Berahzer is a Senior Project Director for the Environmental Finance Center at the University of North Carolina, and works from a satellite office in Georgia. Water utilities in … Read More about Does Governing Structure Determine the Financial Health of a Water Utility?
Drinking Water & Wastewater, General InformationWater Services are Cheap, Right? Maybe Not for Everyone…
May 29, 2013Jeff Hughes is a Faculty member at the UNC School of Government and the Director of the UNC Environmental Finance Center. Jeff is also the Principal Investigator for the Water … Read More about Water Services are Cheap, Right? Maybe Not for Everyone…
Drinking Water & Wastewater, Financial BenchmarkingTrends in Operating Expenses Relative to Operating Revenues for Local Government-Owned Water Utilities
May 22, 2013Shadi Eskaf is a Senior Project Director for the Environmental Finance Center at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. A couple of months ago, we blogged that water utilities’ … Read More about Trends in Operating Expenses Relative to Operating Revenues for Local Government-Owned Water Utilities
Drinking Water & Wastewater, Financial Benchmarking, General InformationEffective Utility Management
May 7, 2013Guest author Catherine Noyes is an Associate Consultant at Raftelis Financial Consultants. Through the 1960s, the utility business was all about protecting public health – making sure that technology was … Read More about Effective Utility Management
Drinking Water & Wastewater, General InformationWaterWise Dividend Model
April 23, 2013Mary Tiger is the Chief Operating Officer of the Environmental Finance Center. How would you like to get a check from your water utility instead of sending them one? This … Read More about WaterWise Dividend Model
Drinking Water & Wastewater, General InformationEconomic Climate and Utility Financial Health
April 20, 2013Sarah Royster is a graduate student with the UNC School of Public Health pursuing a Master’s Degree in Environmental Engineering. She works as a Research Assistant with the Environmental Finance … Read More about Economic Climate and Utility Financial Health
Drinking Water & Wastewater, General InformationGetting to Yes? Energy Efficiency Loan Programs in the Southeast
April 18, 2013Jen Weiss is a Finance Analyst at the Environmental Finance Center. Yes, energy efficiency is the low hanging fruit of the energy world. And yes, the southeastern United States has … Read More about Getting to Yes? Energy Efficiency Loan Programs in the Southeast
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