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Downstream Thinking: National and Regional Trends in Green Infrastructure
By Anna McGeehan “We all live downstream.” In the world of stormwater management, this concept is particularly relevant. Polluted waterways have far-reaching impacts for us all. Increased flooding, higher water treatment costs, strain on existing…
Watering Down Financial Sustainability, Public Health, and Environmental Protection
Today we feature a guest post from The Pollution Finance Center (PFC). Author’s Note: If you find puns pungent, wade no further into this blog since it dives so deep into pollution finance that you…
Financing Urban Agriculture: a Growing Field of Possibilities
By Emily Kosmala As a student working under the Wetland Finance program at the Environmental Finance Center at UNC Chapel Hill, I spend most of my time exploring options for financing wetland protection. I’ve been…
Understanding the Financial Position of Households Using the American Community Survey
In previous posts, we have talked about publicly available data on inflationary measures including the Consumer Price Index and the Construction Cost Index as well as on commercial energy use from the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) and the US Census. The US Census also has…
$napShot: Smart Meters Can Lead to a Flood of Data
During the 2014 North Carolina Water and Wastewater Finance course, the Town of Cary and Sensus Inc. presented to the class on a panel entitled “Smart Technology and Water Finance.” During the panel, Karen Mills,…
Encouraging Investments in Wetland and Water Quality Improvements on Private Property through Low-Interest Loans
Restoration and protection of wetlands is one of the four core elements of a wetland program, as defined by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Some restoration and protection takes place through wetland regulatory activities, such…
Eight Communication Strategies to Help Water Utilities Get the Rates They Need
Water utilities face trying times when communicating the need to increase rates to cover the increasing costs of operating water and wastewater utilities. The issues are complex. The public is constantly bombarded with news from…
Is Uniform the Next Trend in Water Rates?
Growing up in a country where school uniforms were mandatory, I viewed uniforms as, well …, “boring!” At least that was the way I felt in high school. One of the most engaging classes I…