Community Aqueducts in Puerto Rico Bounce Back from Hurricane Fiona, but Challenges Remain

by Shannon Pepper | Dec 2, 2022 | General Management & Finance, Risk and Resiliency to Climate Hazards

On September 18, 2022, Hurricane Fiona made landfall in Puerto Rico. The Category 1 Hurricane, which hit five years after Hurricane Maria and Hurricane Irma devastated the island, caused flash floods and landslides and left hundreds of thousands of people without...

Community Aqueducts in Puerto Rico: Challenges to Managing Drinking Water Systems in the Caribbean (in Spanish)

by Shannon Pepper | Nov 22, 2022 | General Management & Finance

Español: En este podcast en español, escuche una conversación entre Isabel McCullough Valentin, estudiante de la SUNY Colegio de Ciencias Ambientales y Forestales y la Dra. Kaira Fuentes, Gerente del Programa del Caribe en el Centro de Financiamiento Ambientales de la...

Wastewater Operations Optimization

by Shannon Pepper | Nov 21, 2022 | General Management & Finance, Wastewater

This podcast from the Southwest Environmental Finance Center provides examples in operations optimization, including sewer cleaning and televising, and data integrity and visualization.

The Integrated Asset Management Framework

by Shannon Pepper | Nov 21, 2022 | Asset Management, General Management & Finance, Green Infrastructure

This podcast from the Southwest Environmental Finance Center discusses the new online Integrated Asset Management Framework, which blends green assets into the existing gray asset management framework. The framework is for water, wastewater, and stormwater systems of...

Assessing and Building the Technical, Managerial, and Financial Capacity of Your Wastewater Utility

by Shannon Pepper | Oct 28, 2022 | General Management & Finance, Wastewater

Did you know there are three strategies that can help any wastewater utility improve its capacity? The US Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) expresses the capacity of a utility in terms of technical, managerial, and financial—or TMF—capacities that work together...

Social Media Marketing for Water and Wastewater Systems: Getting Started

by Shannon Pepper | Oct 10, 2022 | Communications and Outreach, General Management & Finance

Here in the digital age, approximately 7 out of 10 Americans use social media. We connect with our friends, co-workers, as well as businesses or services. If water and wastewater utilities dial in to this unique opportunity of having the digital world at their...