Funding Articles

The web-based portal consolidates information about financing mechanisms and other resources that can help communities plan their projects

AWWA’s Buried No Longer tool is a resource that utilities can use in planning for their own system’s upgrades, and the data will also be used to develop a national report about infrastructure needs

The Green Bay Water Utility has made a concerted effort to identify all the lead in its system, and provide waterline replacements at no cost to homeowners

In this week’s news briefs, Trump’s proposed budget cuts targeting water programs don’t make it through Congress, and a New York county looking to transition from septic to sewer hopes funding in a new state law can help

In this week’s news briefs, the California state Senate passes legislation aimed at making it easier to finance stormwater capture projects, and the New York Department of Environmental Conservation debuts a mapping tool to better identify water quality problem areas

University research team creates interactive online map showing the various ways utilities have gotten creative with financing mechanisms

In this week’s news briefs, officials are planning to release 9 million acre-feet of water from Lake Powell into the Colorado River, and a drought in South Florida could bring mandatory restrictions for water customers

In this week’s news briefs, senators across the country have teamed up to introduce the Water Infrastructure Flexibility Act, and the director of the Colorado Water Conservation Board resigns to focus his efforts on the private sector

Plans unveiled by the Trump Administration last week include elimination of a $498 million program that aids rural water and wastewater systems.

In this week’s news briefs, the Trump White House’s initial proposal for EPA cuts could negatively affect the water industry, and officials in Fraser, Michigan, are inspecting miles of pipe around the site of the Christmas Eve sinkhole to catch any additional problem areas.

In this week’s news briefs, Milwaukee’s longtime water superintendent leaves for a job in Maine, and New York lawmakers push for a bill that would create a formula-based program for distributing water and sewer infrastructure funds.

Eight startup companies have been selected for the first-ever Pipeline H2O program aimed at addressing the world's water challenges.

In this week’s news briefs, proposed legislation in Wisconsin aims to ease the burden on customers paying for their portion of lead service line replacements, and a recent study says New Jersey utilities are losing one-third of their treated drinking water through leaky pipes.

The Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act will provide low-cost loans for water projects at the state and local level.