by Southwest EFC | Dec 14, 2021 | Access to Wastewater Funding Sources, Access to Water Funding Sources, Source Water Protection
Nonpoint source pollution can be a complex and daunting problem. Unlike industrial and sewage plant pollution, Nonpoint source pollution (NPS) comes from many diffuse sources, making this issue difficult for many systems to address. As part of our Smart Management for...
by UNCEFC | Oct 5, 2021 | Access to Wastewater Funding Sources, Access to Water Funding Sources
Passed in March of 2021, the American Rescue Plan Act designated $350 billion for State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds. These funds go directly to states, tribal governments, and local municipalities, though small municipalities (also called Non-entitlement units or...
by Erin Riggs | Sep 6, 2017 | Access to Wastewater Funding Sources, Access to Water Funding Sources, Affordability, Financial Management
Why Water or Wastewater Utilities in Many States May Be Apprehensive to Fund Affordability Programs with Rate Revenue One of the reports recently completed at the Environmental Finance Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel provides an analysis of the...
by Andrea Kopaskie | Aug 24, 2017 | Access to Wastewater Funding Sources, Access to Water Funding Sources
Attention all North Carolinian water and wastewater systems: the State Water Infrastructure Authority announced that $168.5 million in water and wastewater funding will be available this upcoming fall. In response to this announcement, the North Carolina Department of...
by Jeff Hughes | Jan 11, 2017 | Access to Wastewater Funding Sources, Access to Water Funding Sources
What is WIFIA? WIFIA stands for the Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act, the name of the federal act that authorized an interesting new federally managed water and wastewater infrastructure funding mechanism. WIFIA includes both direct loans and a new...
by Shadi Eskaf | Sep 9, 2015 | Access to Wastewater Funding Sources, Access to Water Funding Sources
According to data collected and published by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), federal, state, and local governments in the United States spent more than $2.2 trillion in the last 59 years on operations, maintenance, and capital infrastructure of water and...
