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 Environmental Finance Center at the University of North Carolina (UNC 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 … 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

The Old EFC Affordability Tool Seven years ago, the Environmental Finance Center at the UNC School of Government (EFC) debuted its Excel-based water and wastewater rates assessment tool. The tool guided utilities to assess the relative affordability of water and … Read more

This dashboard is designed to assist utility managers and local officials to compare and benchmark residential water and wastewater rates against multiple characteristics, including utility finances, system characteristics, customer demographics, and geography. This resource for utilities in Vermont is funded … Read more

In September 2021, the UNC Environmental Finance Center produced eight case studies discussing unique financing mechanisms in different North Carolina cities and towns as well as a series of one-page overview resources. This project was completed with Funding from the … Read more

Water and wastewater rate setting is one of local government’s most important environmental and public health responsibilities. The EFC and the Hawai’i Department of Health Safe Drinking Water Branch conducted surveys of what water and wastewater utilities in the state … Read more