affordability

Stacey Isaac Berahzer presented at the 2016 GAWP Leadership Academy on accounting, budgeting, financial reporting, rate setting, funding methods, and benchmarking for public water and wastewater utilities.

Stacey Isaac Berahzer presented at the 2015 GAWP Leadership Academy on accounting, budgeting, financial reporting, rate setting, funding methods, and benchmarking for public water and wastewater utilities.

Stacey Isaac Berahzer presented at the 2014 GAWP Leadership Academy on accounting, budgeting, financial reporting, rate setting, funding methods, and benchmarking for public water and wastewater utilities.

A simple do-it-yourself Excel tool that guides a utility to assess the relative affordability of its water and wastewater rates on its residential customers using multiple metrics. Affordability is assessed for the average customer, low-income customers, and a full range of households based on their various income levels, both all households and only homeowners. The tool also allows for a new rate structure to be entered to see how affordability compares from one rate structure to the next.

This tool was developed by the Environmental Finance Center for the Water Research Foundation as part of the Defining Resilient Business Models for Water Utilities project. The tool is designed to help water utilities estimate the costs of implementing a customer assistance program.

Stacey Isaac Berahzer presented at the GAWP Leadership Academy on accounting, budgeting, financial reporting, rate setting, funding methods, and benchmarking for public water and wastewater utilities.