by UNCEFC | Nov 9, 2017 | Board/Elected Official Engagement, Communications and Outreach
For many small towns, websites are the main avenue of communication with residents. At the Environmental Finance Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, we use town websites to find contact information, water rates, and link towns around the...
by Heather Himmelberger | Oct 19, 2017 | Financial Management
I thoroughly enjoy having my conventional thinking turned on its head, which is even more fun when it affects conventional wisdom in general. So here goes… What gap are we talking about here? We often think of the gap as the difference between the money we have and...
by Heather Himmelberger | Oct 4, 2017 | Asset Management
When you think about your facility – be it water, wastewater, stormwater, or any other set of assets – are your assets managing you, are you managing your assets or are you practicing asset management? The distinctions between the latter two ideas may not seem all...
by Erin Riggs | Sep 6, 2017 | Access to Wastewater Funding Sources, Access to Water Funding Sources, Affordability, Financial Management
Why Water or Wastewater Utilities in Many States May Be Apprehensive to Fund Affordability Programs with Rate Revenue One of the reports recently completed at the Environmental Finance Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel provides an analysis of the...
by Andrea Kopaskie | Aug 24, 2017 | Access to Wastewater Funding Sources, Access to Water Funding Sources
Attention all North Carolinian water and wastewater systems: the State Water Infrastructure Authority announced that $168.5 million in water and wastewater funding will be available this upcoming fall. In response to this announcement, the North Carolina Department of...
