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Water₡lips: New Video Series on Financial Topics for Water Utilities, their Boards, and Funders
Water utility governing boards serve a critical role in ensuring the provision of clean, safe drinking water. Governing boards are tasked with making important and complex decisions in line with the utility’s mission, and they…
WRRDA: Creating Interactions between the New WIFIA Program and the Updated Clean Water State Revolving Fund
As the federal government considered introducing a new program, the Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Authority (WIFIA), for funding water infrastructure projects, some opponents saw the new program as unnecessary. The protest was not…
Bottom-Up Financing Options for Green Infrastructure: What Will Your Approach Be?
Green Infrastructure (GI), a common term to refer to a range of different types of small and mid-scale installations that support water management and other environmental goals, has become a growing component of many local…
EPA’s Proposed Clean Power Plan: Initial Thoughts on Electric Utility Costs and Pricing
By David Tucker and Lexi Kay In June 2014, the U.S. EPA proposed the Clean Power Plan rule for the regulation of existing electric power plants under Section 111(d) of the federal Clean Air Act. A comment period…
Conservation Water Rates in Arizona
by Jacob Mouw This post was revised on September 25, 2014 to address nuances of water pricing and differences in conservation rates. Drinking water, despite being a necessity, is relatively cheap in regards to its importance….
Making the Business Case for Energy Policies: Lessons from Little Rock
Guest post by David Brown What’s the right mix of petroleum, natural gas, coal, and other fuels to use for electrical generation today? What are our options for meeting the energy demands of tomorrow? And…
The RACE for PACE: Residential PACE Starts to Inch Forward
In case you haven’t heard, Property Assessed Clean Energy programs have picked up the …. well, they’ve picked up the PACE. And just in the nick of time, as many federally-funded clean energy programs are…
New Tool Helps Utilities Assess the Affordability of Water and Wastewater Service
When the five small water systems in Hampton County, South Carolina decided to band together to create the Lowcountry Regional Water System (LRWS), they, like many other small water systems across the country, faced a…