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Community Development through EPA’s Building Blocks for Sustainable Communities Program
February 24, 2017Many of the local governments we assist at the Environmental Finance Center struggle to raise enough money to support their environmental services. Often, we work with these communities to improve … Read More about Community Development through EPA’s Building Blocks for Sustainable Communities Program
Drinking Water & Wastewater, Energy, Watersheds, Wetlands & StormwaterSeven Strategies for Identifying Who Is Willing and Able to Pay for Household Water Services
February 14, 2017Guest post by Urooj Amjad Accurately identifying vulnerable groups and their commitment to pay, or incapacity to pay, is a timeless challenge in household water services. When consumers pay for … Read More about Seven Strategies for Identifying Who Is Willing and Able to Pay for Household Water Services
Drinking Water & WastewaterTrends in EPA Violations in Water Systems
February 8, 2017Here at the Environmental Finance Center, we work with water systems across the country to help them improve their financial and managerial capacity. While there are many reasons why it … Read More about Trends in EPA Violations in Water Systems
Drinking Water & Wastewater, Smart Management for Small Water SystemsExpanding our Impact: Literacy in Environment and Finance
February 2, 2017Here at the Environmental Finance Center, our key role is to increase the capacity of other organizations to address the financial aspects of environmental protection and service delivery. The majority … Read More about Expanding our Impact: Literacy in Environment and Finance
Energy, Watersheds, Wetlands & StormwaterChallenges in Financing Distributed Infrastructure
January 19, 2017Why state and local governments should review statutes governing financing of infrastructure projects and add explicit language to include conservation measures Resource conservation gets recognized as a supply – in … Read More about Challenges in Financing Distributed Infrastructure
Drinking Water & Wastewater, Energy, Watersheds, Wetlands & StormwaterWIFIA! EPA’s New Billion Dollar Water and Wastewater Loan Program Hits the Street
January 11, 2017What is WIFIA? WIFIA stands for the Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act, the name of the federal act that authorized an interesting new federally managed water and wastewater infrastructure … Read More about WIFIA! EPA’s New Billion Dollar Water and Wastewater Loan Program Hits the Street
Drinking Water & Wastewater, Smart Management for Small Water SystemsNew Year, New Chart? 4 Tips for More Effective Data Visualization
January 3, 2017Here at the Environmental Finance Center we work with a lot of data, but all the data in the world is useless if you can’t convey the story of the … Read More about New Year, New Chart? 4 Tips for More Effective Data Visualization
Drinking Water & Wastewater, Energy, Financial Benchmarking, Watersheds, Wetlands & StormwaterI’ve Got the Rate Case Blues: How to Maintain Financial Health While Mounting Fewer Rate Cases
November 30, 2016For water and sewer utilities regulated by a state’s public utilities commission (PUC), mounting a rate case can be an expensive proposition. In fact, for some particularly small utilities, mounting … Read More about I’ve Got the Rate Case Blues: How to Maintain Financial Health While Mounting Fewer Rate Cases
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