by Sami Stroud | Jul 8, 2025 | Financial Management, Fiscal Planning & Rate Setting, General Management & Finance, Risk and Resiliency to Climate Hazards, Small Water Systems
Risk management is essential for small water systems to ensure the continued delivery of safe and reliable water to their communities. These systems often operate with limited resources, making them especially vulnerable to unexpected events such as equipment...
by Shannon Pepper | Aug 1, 2024 | Financial Management, Fiscal Planning & Rate Setting, General Management & Finance, Managerial & Financial Leadership
Clean water is an integral part of a thriving community and environment. Without updated water and wastewater treatment systems, human and environmental safety is challenged. Financing new infrastructure projects can often be a roadblock for small communities. This...
by Shannon Pepper | Apr 19, 2023 | Fiscal Planning & Rate Setting, Wastewater
This podcast explains different service rate structures, methods and resources used to set service rates, and the challenges small systems face in setting rates.
by Shannon Pepper | Jan 3, 2023 | Financial Management, Fiscal Planning & Rate Setting
Sound financial management can be one of the most difficult aspects of running a utility or system. This blog will break that process down into four basic parts, addressing wastewater system financial statements, budgets, rate setting, and affordability. ...
by Shannon Pepper | Sep 2, 2022 | Affordability, Fiscal Planning & Rate Setting, Rates, Wastewater
Setting the rates for wastewater services is an exercise that should be done when the annual budget is prepared. The rates need to generate sufficient revenue to cover operation and maintenance (O&M), repair and replacement (R&R), principal and...
by Jerry Gunasegaram | Jul 27, 2022 | Access to Wastewater Funding Sources, Access to Water Funding Sources, Additional Support Organizations, Affordability, Asset Management, Financial Management, Fiscal Planning & Rate Setting, Funding Coordination, General Management & Finance
Nevada’s Department of Environmental Protection and the Environmental Finance Center at California State University, Sacramento joined EFCN for a series of webinars focused on funding and financing strategies and opportunities for Nevada water services. The webinars...
