Whether you’re an industry professional or just curious about where your water comes from and where it goes after you use it, touring treatment facilities like this one is a fun and engaging way to learn about water systems. The Arcata Wastewater Treatment Plant and Wildlife Sanctuary is a particularly innovative example.
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Living Without Water is Draining Us: New report released on economic impacts of water access inequity
In June 2022, human rights nonprofit DigDeep released the first ever US study on the national price tag for allowing millions of Americans to live without running water. The findings from the report are staggering.
Alternative Ways of Viewing Water Needs: Challenges to the Dominant Discourse and Implications for Water Managers
On March 29th, 2022, the Institute for American Indian Research at the University of New Mexico hosted an online panel discussion on Water and Indigenous Relations…
Seeing in Gray and Green – Integrated Asset Management Explained
Why traditional asset management needs to grow A traditional asset management framework focuses on man-made (“gray”) infrastructure, often to...
New research assistant joins SWEFC
Hello, I am Eleanor Hasenbeck. I recently joined the Southwest Environmental Finance Center as a research assistant. At the SWEFC, I am excited to...
Who Owns the Water?
In a recent article published in the New York Times entitled “Wall Street Eyes Billions in the Colorado’s Water”...
Southwest Environmental Finance Center Releases New Financial Analysis Tool
The Southwest Environmental Finance Center has created a web-based tool to help water and wastewater utilities evaluate the financial health of...
A Financial Reporting Tool for States to Assess Utilities
The Southwest Environmental Finance Center has created a web-based tool to help water and wastewater utilities in Idaho report financial information...
No Money for Water? (Part 2 of 2)
Clean Water is a Human Right Continuing the conversation about the dilemma of people not paying their water bills, we pick up on the topic of...