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Guidance for funding infrastructure projects
The reports below provide guidance for funding resilient infrastructure projects.
Bond Financing Distributed Water systems: How to Make Better Use of Our Most Liquid Market for Financing Water infrastructureAcross the country, communities are experiencing more extreme hydrology...As a growing number of water planners across the country are recognizing, these challenges cannot be solved solely by building new reservoirs, pipelines and treatment plants. Given current financial and ecological constraints, utilities will have to embrace a new form of infrastructure if they intend to provide reliable, reasonably priced water services.
Building Better Water Rates for an Uncertain WorldBuilding Better Water Rates for an Uncertain World provides the background and concepts needed to develop, evaluate, and implement an effective rate structure.
Financing Sustainable WaterFinancing Sustainable Water is an initiative of the Alliance for Water Efficiency. It was created to provide practical information to guide utilities from development through implementation of rate structures that balance revenue management, resource efficiency and fiscal sustainability. Available tools include the AWE Sales Forecasting and Rate Model, which explicitly models the effects of rate structures based on various scenarios, including drought.
Charles Stewart Mott FoundationThe mission of the Mott Foundation's Environment program is to support the efforts of an engaged citizenry working to create accountable and responsive institutions, sound public policies and appropriate models of development that protect the diversity and integrity of selected ecosystems in North America and around the world. One of their focus areas is conservation of freshwater ecosystems.
Joyce Foundationsupports the development of policies that both improve the quality of life for people in the Great Lakes region and serve as models for the rest of the country. Environmental focus areas include energy efficiency and Great Lakes restoration.
Lumpkin Family FundFunds projects in East Central Illinois in environmental health and other areas.
