Benefits of a Green Infrastructure Program

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.

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...

Conducting a Budget Stress Test to Determine Your Level of Financial Resiliency

by Shannon Pepper | Oct 31, 2022 | Uncategorized

  Budgeting, long-term financial planning, and financial resiliency are even more critical as financial, economic, and climate events continue to make headlines.  Planning for uncertainty, and developing a long term financial strategy is important to ensure we...

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...