EFC Program: Drinking Water and Wastewater

The EFC's work promotes smart management and resilient business models for drinking water and wastewater utilities. Through applied financial research on customer level billing data, partnerships with utilities across the country and work with private, local and state government water organizations the EFC develops modeled and tested strategies that can lead to financial health in the water industry.

Innovative Alternative Pricing Models for Utilities

Public water utilities and the EFC at UNC worked together to investigate the possible use of new...
Canada's National Water and Wastewater Benchmarking Initiative Financial Sustainability Dashboard

The EFC at UNC developed a Financial Sustainability Dashboard for approximately 50 utilities...
Rate Approval Process Communication Strategy and Toolkit

Presenting the need for a rate increase and obtaining the approval from the governing board can...
Water System Partnerships, Interconnections, and Interlocal Agreements

There is a very wide spectrum of water system partnerships (often called regionalization),...
Defining a Resilient Business Model for Water Utilities

As part of a Water Research Foundation project, a team of researchers from the EFC at UNC and...
Long-Term Planning to Improve Resiliency and Environmental Service of North Carolina's Water and Wastewater Utilities

This project seeks to examine the long-term planning of North Carolina's water and wastewater...
Massachusetts Water and Wastewater Rates Survey and Dashboard

The Environmental Finance Center and Tighe & Bond, Inc., conducted water and sewer rates...
An Overview of Clean Water Access Challenges in the United States

While the concept of no access to clean water or sanitation likely conjures an image of a...
Tools to Assist Water Utilities with Financial Decision Making

The EFC at UNC has created several free tools to assist water utilities in addressing the...
Alternative Water Project Delivery Models

As the nation struggles to repair, maintain, and expand its water infrastructure, public-private...
Navigating Legal Pathways to Rate-Funded Customer Assistance Programs

Although historically underpriced, water and wastewater rates in some parts of the United States...
North Carolina Water System Capacity Development Support

Assistance provided to the Public Water Supply Section of the Division of Water Resources in the...