by Leslie Garren | Nov 1, 2017 | Board/Elected Official Engagement, Utility Management
Elected officials or board members may be members of a city council or county commission or serve on the Rural Water District board. With a long list of to-dos and policy concerns, how are board members supposed to stay up-to-date and knowledgeable on all that goes...
by Glenn Barnes | Oct 18, 2017 | Financial Management, Utility Management
My colleague Stacey Isaac Berahzer, a senior project director here at the Environmental Finance Center, made her podcast debut this week on The Water Values Podcast, a series specifically focused on drinking water finance and management. The Water...
by Rosemary Astra-Blossom | Aug 1, 2017 | Financial Management, Utility Management
Financial management is at the core of challenges small drinking water systems face. A comprehensive understanding of the financial health of a water system can help ensure that rates are set optimally, giving small systems the ability to finance projects while...
by Allison Perch | Jul 10, 2017 | Utility Management
Access to clean, safe water does not come easy. We may have mental images of some parts of the world where people spend their whole day traveling to and from water sources and preparing water so that it is safe to consume. But in the United States, we’ve come to...
by Andrea Kopaskie | May 5, 2017 | Risk and Resiliency to Climate Hazards, Utility Management
In March, the UNC Institute for the Environment hosted the Clean Tech Summit, a multi-day event in which students and professionals convene and foster leadership and discussion among the Southeast’s clean tech industry. Many summit panels incorporated and focused on...
by Andrea Kopaskie | Oct 19, 2016 | Utility Management
The dynamic between public and private systems has always been interesting, especially in the case of water and wastewater systems. Public water systems are usually non-profit entities managed by local or state governments, for which rates are set by a governing...
