by Austin Thompson | May 15, 2019 | Affordability, Financial Management, Rates
The 2019 North Carolina Water and Wastewater Rates Dashboard was deployed just over a month ago, marking another year in a long partnership between the Environmental Finance Center at UNC-Chapel Hill, the North Carolina League of Municipalities, and the North Carolina...
by Stacey Berahzer | May 14, 2019 | Affordability
Note: This is the second in a series of Xylem formerly Valor Water Analytics blog posts exploring states of water affordability, customer nonpayment, and technology that can enable utilities to deliver water more equitably and sustainably to all customers. It was...
by Stacey Berahzer | May 13, 2019 | Affordability
Note: This is the first in a series of Xylem formerly Valor Water Analytics blog posts exploring the water affordability crisis, customer nonpayment, and technology that can enable utilities to deliver water more equitably and sustainably to all customers. It was...
by Jeff Hughes | Oct 31, 2018 | Affordability
Interested in the challenge of protecting public and environmental health without losing sight of the burden those goals may place on some segments of our society? The affordability challenge sits at the intersection of efforts to assure adequate investment in...
by Glenn Barnes | Jun 28, 2018 | Affordability, Financial Management, Rates
At the Environmental Finance Center, we think a lot about the affordability of environmental services such as drinking water and wastewater. When developing utilities we have to consider not only the cost of the system but also the affordability not water and...
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...