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The Politics of Setting Water Rates

As if figuring out how to fund a decades-old water system isn’t difficult enough, you also need to get your elected officials onside so the whole process doesn’t collapse under the weight of angry residents and rate payers … Read More

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How to Achieve a Sustainable Capital Reinvestment Rate in Four Simple Steps

“Our revenues are barely enough to keep the taps running, let alone fund pipe replacement.” It’s the message I hear from municipal water managers almost every day. … Read More

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Water Rate Consultants: Tomorrow’s Steam Train Engineers?

What is the future for consulting now that we have software that lets people do rates analysis themselves with ease and confidence? Are rate consultants tomorrow’s steam train engineers, fighting it out in a sunset industry? … Read More

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Wanting to Increase Your Fixed Revenue Does Not Make You a Bad Person

I spend a lot of time talking to municipal CFOs and Public Works Directors all over North America. They’re increasingly concerned about revenue stability from year to year, and with good reason … Read More

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