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Metrics to Determine Principal Forgiveness Eligibility: Highlighting EPA Region 4

Metrics to Determine Principal Forgiveness Eligibility: Highlighting EPA Region 4

by Claudia Flores | Jul 5, 2018 | Access to Water Funding Sources, Financial Management

  The State Revolving Fund (SRF) programs have become a well-known financing option for many water and wastewater infrastructure projects across the country. This is mainly due to the longevity of the clean water (CWSRF) and drinking water (DWSRF) programs and...
The Gray Area in Funding Affordability Programs

The Gray Area in Funding Affordability Programs

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...
Tips and Takeaways: Applying for NC Water and Wastewater Funding Programs

Tips and Takeaways: Applying for NC Water and Wastewater Funding Programs

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...
WIFIA! EPA’s New Billion Dollar Water and Wastewater Loan Program Hits the Street

WIFIA! EPA’s New Billion Dollar Water and Wastewater Loan Program Hits the Street

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...
Three State Programs that Assist Local Capital Planning & Statewide Infrastructure Needs Assessment

Three State Programs that Assist Local Capital Planning & Statewide Infrastructure Needs Assessment

by UNCEFC | Jul 15, 2016 | Access to Water Funding Sources, Infrastructure Renewal/ Replacement

The EPA’s 2011 Report to Congress on the Drinking Water Infrastructure Needs Survey and Assessment, which estimated infrastructure capital needs of $384.2 billion over the next 20 years, includes a short line that has stuck with me all summer: “It is difficult to...
Four Trends in Government Spending on Water and Wastewater Utilities Since 1956

Four Trends in Government Spending on Water and Wastewater Utilities Since 1956

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...
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