Hello, I am Eleanor Hasenbeck. I recently joined the Southwest Environmental Finance Center as a research assistant. At the SWEFC, I am excited to...
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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...
No Money for Water? (Part 1 of 2)
Of course, we all need water. But what happens when we can’t pay for it? For whatever reason, and there are many, at any given time about...
What Should I Do with My Yogurt Cup? (part 2)
What About Recycling? Humans have been recycling in one form or another for hundreds (if not thousands) of years. For most of history, new...
What Should I Do with My Yogurt Cup? (part 1)
The World’s Largest Dump. In the middle of the Pacific Ocean, between San Francisco and Hawaii, is an area roughly 4 times the size of California...
Tap water: JUST DRINK IT!
Written by: Sandi Blanton Photo by Catherine Sheila from Pexels Recent news reports have called our attention to unacceptable levels...