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The Business of Water: Capturing and Creating Value
Successful and long-lasting businesses are all about capturing and creating value. Value creation or value added can broadly be defined as taking an action where the benefits of the action exceed the...
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A New Fee: Why Develop a Stormwater Utility, Where does the Money Go?
Leigh DeForest is a graduate fellow in the 2019 Leaders in Environment and Finance (LEAF) program. As a part of the LEAF Fellowship, Leigh spent the summer of 2019 working at Triangle J Council of...
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Financial Implications of COVID-19 for Water and Wastewater Utilities
Water and wastewater utilities are adapting to the rapidly changing conditions imposed across the country and the world by the COVID-19 pandemic. With stay-at-home orders, closures of schools,...
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Visualizing the Value (of a State Revolving Fund Loan)
Imagine a town called “Smallville.” Smallville, as you might guess, is small. The town’s water utility needs a new water tank, and they need it now. Like most systems across the US, Smallville’s system...
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Measuring the Impact: An Evaluation of 379 ARC-Funded Water and Wastewater...
Funding programs that support drinking water and wastewater infrastructure projects generate benefits that exceed simply providing cost savings to the communities receiving subsidized loans and grants....
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How are North Carolina Utilities Faring During the Pandemic? Four Key...
With the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, utilities across the nation continue to adapt to rapidly changing conditions through a number of measures, from suspending water shut-offs to implementing...
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Financial Resilience: Tools to test a utility’s ability to “weather the storm”
These are unprecedented times. As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, social norms have changed and unemployment has risen sharply across the nation. As states have pushed residents to stay home, water...
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COVID-19 and North Carolina Utilities: Impact Assessment of the Coronavirus...
August has been a key transition month for local government utilities in North Carolina as EO 124/142 (which prohibited disconnections due to non-payment for residential utility accounts) has expired,...
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Yadkin Valley Sewer Authority: A Case Study of the Impact of COVID-19 on a...
The abrupt arrival of COVID-19 in the United States financially impacted businesses across all sectors, with water and wastewater utilities being no exception (see our previous blog post). Two major...
View ArticleDisconnections – Where’s the data?
On October 5th, two House Democrats, Harley Rouda and Rashida Tlaib, submitted this letter to ask the director of the CDC to give a nation-wide moratorium on water disconnections due to non-payment...
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