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Preparing Your Utility for a Financial Audit: A Practical Guide

by Shannon Pepper | Oct 3, 2025 | Financial Management

Image: Wikimedia Commons Preparing for a financial audit is an important part of every wastewater (and water) utility’s operation. Not only is it good financial practice to run your business with the prospect of an audit on your mind, but some level of regular...

Pressure Test Your Interview Skills for a Career in Water

by Shannon Pepper | Sep 8, 2025 | Workforce Development

Image by Van Tay Media, Unsplash Introduction Water utility operators are quiet guardians of public health that ensure our communities have safe, reliable drinking water and wastewater service, often without the public even noticing their vital work. Water utilities...

Risk Management for Water Systems: A Case Study of Goleta Water District in Santa Barbara County, California

by Sami Stroud | Jul 16, 2025 | General Management & Finance, Managerial & Financial Leadership, Utility Management

This podcast features Goleta Water District in Santa Barbara County, California. The district operates to provide water to over 87,000 people living in the greater Goleta Valley with an infrastructure of more than 270 miles of pipeline. GFOA worked with the Goleta...

Investing in People, Not Just Pipes: The Case for Leadership Training in the Water Sector

by Sami Stroud | Jul 15, 2025 | General Management & Finance, Resilience, Utility Management, Workforce Development

Image Source: Shutterstock User @llucky78 The water sector keeps communities safe, economies running, and ecosystems healthy, but it’s been facing a quiet crisis (and I’m not referring to the aging pipes). Across the country, water utilities are under strain. One in...

3 Fee Strategies to Support Green Infrastructure Maintenance

by Shannon Pepper | Jul 9, 2025 | Access to Wastewater Funding Sources, Asset Management, Green Infrastructure, Stormwater

Imagine you’re an average citizen in the city or town you live in: You are walking down the road and see a streetside stormwater harvesting swale, also known as a chicane, that the city installed a couple years ago. There are some native plants doing okay in there,...
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