by Jerry Gunasegaram | Jul 26, 2022 | Affordability, Financial Management, Partnerships
Small systems are finding it harder and harder to achieve the balance between meeting their obligations to provide safe and reliable water and the ever-growing costs to meet these obligations. Considering regionalization needs to be part of the discussion when it...
by Jerry Gunasegaram | Jul 26, 2022 | Affordability, Asset Management, Financial Management, Fiscal Planning & Rate Setting, Funding Coordination
How can a utility’s rate design and policies around collections promote affordability? In this 1-hour webinar recording, EFCN experts discuss how different rate structures impact customers, how to set rate structures equitable, and how utility policies can help...
by Jerry Gunasegaram | Jul 26, 2022 | Affordability, Financial Management, Rates
Many small water systems – particularly in rural areas – are operating in communities with decreasing average customer water use, declining service populations, or have lost or are at risk of losing large commercial/industrial customers that generate much-needed...
by Shannon Pepper | Apr 5, 2022 | Affordability, Communications and Outreach
The impact of utility rates on community members is a challenge that water and wastewater utilities across the nation face. It is especially challenging for small systems. Join the Environmental Finance Centers from Wichita State University, University of New...
by UNCEFC | May 20, 2020 | Affordability, Financial Management
Right now, water utilities are facing great uncertainty about the coming months and years. When will moratoria on water shut-offs end? When will water consumption be back to “normal”? Will utility staff get COVID-19? And the “Big One” — What will revenue loss be...
by Claudia Flores | Aug 1, 2019 | Affordability, Financial Management
In 2018, the Environmental Finance Center (EFC) published findings from a study that assessed the metrics and criteria used to determine principal forgiveness eligibility in the state revolving funds (SRFs) in EPA Region 4. To complete a more comprehensive analysis,...
