Daniel Kolomeets-Darovsky is an Environmental Finance Analyst with the Environmental Finance Center. stephen schiller / Free Photos   Defining a resilient business model for water utilities is no easy task in a time of unprecedented economic conditions, scare capital, and … Read more

Mary Tiger is the Chief Operating Officer for the Environmental Finance Center and Project Manager for “Defining a Resilient Business Model for Water Utilities” Project funded bythe Water Research Foundation. Last week at the AWWA Annual Conference and Exposition (ACE) … Read more

Christine 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 reasons for optimism within the US water utility sector. 1. … Read more

Christine 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 forefront of local and national policy discussions over the last … Read more

  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.  How can water and wastewater utilities be game-changers in order to adapt … Read more

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 prices are rising faster than any other utility service nationally. Of course, there … Read more

Guest 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. Many water utilities have faced financial challenges due to this … Read more

Shadi 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 high quality product. That product doesn’t really face competition from … Read more

Mary Tiger is the Chief Operating Officer for the Environmental Finance Center at the University of North Carolina. Under the common residential water use pricing model, utilities face a trade-off between reliance on a stable base charge (a fixed fee … Read more

Welcome to the Environmental Finance Blog. The purpose of the blog is to support communities interested in sustainable and innovative financing mechanisms for delivering environmental services such as clean water and energy /waste management.   Bloggers include staff of the EFC, other … Read more