by Shannon Pepper | Oct 20, 2023 | Green Infrastructure, Stormwater, Wastewater
Justinn Overton, Executive Director Coosa WaterKeeper located in Birmingham Alabama patrols and documents the Coosa River and its tributaries from the land, water, and air, looks for pollution problems, responds to citizen complaints, researches and analyzes...
by Shannon Pepper | Dec 9, 2022 | Green Infrastructure, Risk and Resiliency to Climate Hazards, Source Water Protection, Stormwater
Join us for the second podcast in a series exploring green infrastructure for small water, wastewater, and stormwater systems and utilities. Shannon Pepper, from the Southwest Environmental Finance Center, interviews Cameron Weber from Rio Grande Return, a nonprofit...
by Shannon Pepper | Nov 21, 2022 | Green Infrastructure, Managerial & Financial Leadership, Stormwater
This podcast episode from the Southwest Environmental Finance Center discusses the benefits of developing a green infrastructure initiative and key components in developing a program.
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...
by Shannon Pepper | Sep 28, 2022 | Communications and Outreach, Green Infrastructure, Source Water Protection, Stormwater
When I meet with any community to discuss water quality issues, especially a group that is reluctant to implement stormwater Best Management Practices (BMPs), the first question I always ask is, “Do you know where your drinking water comes from?” It never ceases to...
by Jerry Gunasegaram | Jul 27, 2022 | Conservation, Energy Management, Green Infrastructure
Reducing energy costs is one of the few options available to water systems to decrease costs. Energy costs represent the largest controllable cost of providing water services and make up as much as 40 percent of operating costs. Not only that, experts project that...
