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Two Vantage Points on Opportunities for U.S. Water Utility Development – Part II: Glass Half Full
June 19, 2012Christine E. Boyle, PhD is a Post-doctoral Fellow at the Environmental Finance Center Signs of progress in the US public water utility sector Part II of this series describes three … Read More about Two Vantage Points on Opportunities for U.S. Water Utility Development – Part II: Glass Half Full
Drinking Water & Wastewater, General InformationTwo Vantage Points on Opportunities for U.S. Water Utility Development – Part I: Glass Half Empty
June 19, 2012Christine E. Boyle, PhD is a Post-doctoral Fellow at the Environmental Finance Center The large amount of capital needed to fund municipal water utilities’ aging infrastructure has risen to the … Read More about Two Vantage Points on Opportunities for U.S. Water Utility Development – Part I: Glass Half Empty
Drinking Water & Wastewater, General InformationSaving Energy in Philadelphia: Strategies to Spur Residential Retrofits
June 18, 2012Michael Chasnow is a Finance Analyst with the Environmental Finance Center. Although there are dozens of city and state-led residential energy efficiency and renewable energy (EERE) retrofit programs across the … Read More about Saving Energy in Philadelphia: Strategies to Spur Residential Retrofits
Energy, General InformationGame Changing in the Water/Wastewater Utility Business
June 6, 2012Stacey 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. How can … Read More about Game Changing in the Water/Wastewater Utility Business
Drinking Water & Wastewater, General InformationEnergy Data Collection Methods: The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly
May 31, 2012Guest author Janelle Beverly was a graduate student intern at the Environmental Finance Center this past year. This post summarizes the capstone paper she completed in partial fulfillment of an … Read More about Energy Data Collection Methods: The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly
Energy, General InformationThe Increasing Need to Address Customer Affordability
May 29, 2012Stacey 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 prices are rising … Read More about The Increasing Need to Address Customer Affordability
Drinking Water & Wastewater, General InformationDeclining Water Consumption, Part Two: The Big Picture
May 25, 2012Guest author Peiffer Brandt is Chief Operating Officer at Raftelis Financial Consultants. There is little doubt in the industry that per capita water consumption in the United States is declining. … Read More about Declining Water Consumption, Part Two: The Big Picture
Drinking Water & Wastewater, General InformationDeclining Residential Water Use, Part One: North Carolina
May 24, 2012Shadi Eskaf is a Senior Project Director for the Environmental Finance Center at the University of North Carolina. Imagine yourself to be the C.E.O. of a company that produces a … Read More about Declining Residential Water Use, Part One: North Carolina
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