WSSC cuts more than $131 million in FY21 budget
The Montgomery and Prince George’s County Councils recently met to approve WSSC Water’s nearly $1.5 billion Fiscal Year (FY) 2021…
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Cal Water wants rate changes delayed until 2021
California Water Service Group announced that its California subsidiary, California Water Service (Cal Water), has requested that the California Public…
Rates and Affordability: A Ratings Agency Perspective
By Erin Boeke Burke What Does “Affordable” Mean? There are a wide range of opinions on what it means for…
Financial Report: Serving the Community through Data-Driven Decisions
By Glenn Barnes Water systems exist to serve their communities. But do the water system’s rate structure, prices, and policies…
LAST CALL! Call for speakers for 2020 Water Finance Conference
Organizers of the 2020 Water Finance Conference are looking for speakers for its sixth annual event to be held August…
Setting Stormwater Rates Using Machine Learning
City of Mineral Wells, Texas, Uses Image Classification in Stormwater Rate Study By Tak Makino The City of Mineral Wells, Texas,…
5th Annual Water Finance Conference Welcomes Sonny Popowsky as Keynote Speaker
Philadelphia’s water rate board chair and former Pennsylvania consumer advocate to discuss rate setting, affordability challenges Irwin A. “Sonny” Popowsky,…
Pricing California’s Water During the Drought: Can Rate Structures Provide an Incentive for Conservation?
By Jeff Hughes, Shadi Eskaf & Liz Harvell The relationship between water pricing and water use is more nuanced than basic…
Rate Structuring & Steering the Conversation from Skepticism to Acceptance
By Prabha Kumar The ethos and expectations of the utility management, the administration, the rate-approving body and the ratepayers intersect during…
StratComm to highlight ratepayer relations, outreach in Chicago
On June 6-7 in Chicago, the National Association of Clean Water Agencies will host Strategic Communications: H2O (StratComm), an event geared toward…