by Sami Stroud | Jan 27, 2026 | Asset Management, Financial Management, Infrastructure Renewal/ Replacement, Managerial & Financial Leadership, Utility Management
What is Asset Management? What is the number one reason why utilities exist? It is to serve their customers. What is the number one reason they should take on asset management? To better serve their customers. Whether or not a utility undertakes asset management, it...
by Sami Stroud | Jan 5, 2026 | Financial Management, Fiscal Planning & Rate Setting, General Management & Finance, Managerial & Financial Leadership, Rates
Read the previous blog, Rate Analysis for Your Water or Wastewater Utility, to learn more about what components of your rate structure should be reviewed annually by your system. If you are running a small water or wastewater system, annually reviewing your rate...
by Sami Stroud | Dec 17, 2025 | Financial Management, Fiscal Planning & Rate Setting, General Management & Finance, Managerial & Financial Leadership, Rates
If you are running a small water or wastewater system, evaluating your rate structure on an annual basis is a best practice. By reviewing its financial goals, rate structure, and budget each year, a system’s leadership can better assess if financial needs are being...
by Sami Stroud | Oct 20, 2025 | Asset Management, Financial Management, Small Water Systems, Uncategorized
Managing capital assets is vital for small water districts. All the programs and interactions involved in providing services for their customers depend on public assets. The EPA has estimated that the total 20-year infrastructure need for approximately 40,000 small...
by Shannon Pepper | Oct 3, 2025 | Financial Management
Image: Wikimedia Commons Preparing for a financial audit is an important part of every wastewater (and water) utility’s operation. Not only is it good financial practice to run your business with the prospect of an audit on your mind, but some level of regular...
by James Markham | Oct 3, 2025 | Asset Management, Capital Improvement Planning, Financial Management, Fiscal Planning & Rate Setting, General Management & Finance, Uncategorized, Utility Management
Aging pipes, outdated meter reading systems, and strained budgets are putting more pressure than ever on our nation’s water utilities. In this episode, host Anthony Craven sits down with Eric Williams, Senior Project Manager with the Mississippi Water Resources...
