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Tools for Multi-jurisdictional Approaches to Water Quality
By Caroline Simpson Caroline Simpson is a graduate student with the UNC School of Information and Library Science and works as a Research Assistant with the Environmental Finance Center. When the North Carolina Legislature…
Monetizing Climate Change: Making Environmental Decisions Easier on Your Wallet
by Jen Weiss Jen Weiss is a Finance Analyst at the Environmental Finance Center. Mention the words ‘climate change’ and you will likely get a variety of responses. Nationally, opinions range from sentiments like former…
Dismantling Debt: Financing North Carolina’s Infrastructure Needs
Tweet // Sarah 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 Center. Debt and…
Trends in the Water Industry and Common Strategies to Mitigate and Master an Uncertain Future (Hint: You can’t do it alone!)
Mary Tiger is the Chief Operating Officer of the Environmental Finance Center at the University of North Carolina. A few months ago a group of over 20 utility managers from some of the largest water utilities…
When Providing Water Service is Not the Water System’s Primary Business
Glenn 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 Small Water Systems Project. For…
Does Governing Structure Determine the Financial Health of a Water Utility?
Stacey 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 the United States operate under…
Water Services are Cheap, Right? Maybe Not for Everyone…
Jeff 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 Research Foundation’s “Defining a Resilient…
Trends in Operating Expenses Relative to Operating Revenues for Local Government-Owned Water Utilities
Shadi 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’ operating revenues are generally continuing…