by Shannon Pepper | May 15, 2025 | Access to Wastewater Funding Sources, Access to Water Funding Sources, Access to Water/ Wastewater Funding Sources, Resilience, Risk and Resiliency to Climate Hazards
Introduction Water, wastewater and stormwater utilities, collectively referred to as water systems throughout this blog, are vital to public health, functioning economies, and clean environments. When disaster strikes, whether natural or human-made, disruptions in...
by Shannon Pepper | Oct 2, 2023 | Resilience, Risk and Resiliency to Climate Hazards
Many regions of the U.S. are experiencing heavier rain events that drop more water in shorter periods of time, and these trends are projected to strengthen over the coming decades. These events may overwhelm local stormwater infrastructure and cause problems for...
by Shannon Pepper | Apr 14, 2023 | General Management & Finance, Resilience, Utility Management
Blog adapted from: https://www.gfoa.org/materials/cyber-risk-savvy Cybercrime is a rising and evolving threat to water and wastewater systems across the nation. Last year, the federal government’s Critical Infrastructure and Security Agency (CISA) issued an...
by Shannon Pepper | Apr 4, 2023 | Energy Management, Resilience, Utility Management
Easton Utilities won the MD Green Registry’s Sustainability Leadership Award for installing a 2-megawatt photovoltaic solar array, which produces more than 100% of the energy needed for its wastewater treatment facility and removing up to 95% of pollutants...
by Shannon Pepper | Dec 5, 2022 | Managerial & Financial Leadership, Resilience, Risk and Resiliency to Climate Hazards
Part 1 of the Resiliency Means Business Blogs presented some core concepts for building water utility sector resilience, with a few links to further tools and information. Part 2, here, introduces you to our on-line Guided Inventory To Tools for Resilience...
by Shannon Pepper | Nov 23, 2022 | Resilience
In this podcast from Wichita State University, we discuss why emergency response planning is necessary and the three areas of emergency response that your utility can being to brainstorm to jump start your emergency response planning efforts.
