By Hope Thomson, Project Director, SOG EFC The past few years of the global COVID-19 pandemic has certainly had its impact on all sectors of society, including water and wastewater utilities. An early 2020 report by Raftelis and … Read more

    By Tom Roberts, Senior Business Analyst, SOG EFC With the change of season, most government units have started their budget process for the next fiscal year. In addition to their general fund budgets, units need to develop and … Read more

    By Evan Liebgott, Research Assistant, SOG EFC Big picture: the “why” of dashboards The School of Government Environmental Finance Center (SOG EFC) has been creating sustainability dashboards for water and wastewater rates for over 15 years, starting in … Read more

This project, funded by the Public Water Supply Section of NC Department of Environment and Natural Resources, brings together many resources focused on capital planning for drinking water and wastewater utilities. Capital planning often leads to the creation of a Capital Improvement Plan … Read more

This dashboard is designed to assist utility managers and local officials with benchmarking residential water and wastewater rates against multiple attributes, including utility finances, system characteristics, customer base socioeconomic conditions, and geography. This resource for utilities in Arizona is funded … Read more

Since 2014, the EFC has surveyed nearly all of the rate-charging water and wastewater utilities in Arizona. Utilities are invited to provide their current water and wastewater rates. The EFC compiles the rates data with information on utilities’ key financial … Read more

    The School Of Government Environmental Finance Center (SOG EFC) is hard at work on the 2022 North Carolina water and wastewater rates dashboard. We look forward to providing residential rates early in 2022. The public dashboard displays residential … Read more

Affordability of residential rates is a comparative concept, the place where income and expenditures cross. A common metric used to assess affordability is the proportion of the Median Household Income of the community that would be spent on a year’s … Read more

Affordability of residential rates is a comparative concept, the place where income and expenditures cross. A common metric used to assess affordability is the proportion of the Median Household Income of the community that would be spent on a year’s … Read more