This interactive dashboard is designed to assist utility managers and local officials with benchmarking residential water rates against multiple attributes, including financial performance, system characteristics, customer base socioeconomic conditions, and geography. Water rates and financial performance data for utilities that … Read more

Between November 2017 and March 2018, the North Carolina League of Municipalities (NCLM) and the Environmental Finance Center (EFC) at the University of North Carolina’s School of Government conducted a statewide survey of the management and long-term planning practices and … Read more

This interactive dashboard is designed to assist utility managers and local officials with benchmarking residential water and wastewater rates against multiple attributes, including  system characteristics, customer base socioeconomic conditions, and geography. The survey and dashboard were funded by Tighe & … Read more

This dashboard is designed to assist utility managers and local officials with benchmarking residential water rates against multiple attributes, including utility finances, system characteristics, customer base socioeconomic conditions, and geography. The EFC and the Hawai’i Safe Drinking Water Branch of … Read more

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

This dashboard is designed to assist utility managers and local officials with benchmarking residential water and wastewater rates against multiple attributes, including system characteristics, customer base socioeconomic conditions, and geography. Rates data for this dashboard are drawn from the October … Read more

  For several years, approximately 50 water and wastewater utilities across Canada have participated in the National Water and Wastewater Benchmarking Initiative (NWWBI). Every year, the participating utilities provide operational and financial data to AECOM, which compiles the data to provide benchmarking … Read more

The EFC and the North Carolina League of Municipalities (NCLM) conducted a statewide survey of the financial practices and policies of North Carolina drinking water and wastewater utilities between November 2010 and January 2011. 277 local government owned and not-for-profit utilities participated … Read more

This article provides an examination of “full cost pricing” practices using rates, revenues and expenditures data for nearly 900 utilities in Georgia and North Carolina, results of focus groups and communications with technical assistance providers on pricing attitudes and practices, … Read more

The purpose of this report is to help North Carolina water and sewer utilities meet their policy objectives and assure that they have the revenues they need to protect public health. The report provides up-to-date information on current rate-setting practices … Read more