Chmn. Alaina Burtenshaw of the Public Utilities Commission of Nevada (also a Co-Vice Chair of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners’ (NARUC) Committee on Water), explains how state utility commissions are helping water utilities improve operations and how the NARUC gets state water utility interests seen and heard at the national level. Chmn. Burtenshaw identifies a number of regulatory tools that utility commissions are using to improve the regulatory process for water utilities.
Ken Mercer, the American Water Works Association’s (AWWA) Senior Manager of Technical and Research Programs, discusses the AWWA’s Rate Survey and it Utility Benchmarking...
Austin Thompson of the University of North Carolina’s Environmental Finance Center joins us to discuss challenges with and innovations in small utility systems. Austin...
Waterworks Fund CEO Lon Johnson relates his vision of creating a network of water investors and crowdfunding for water projects. Lon describes crowdfunding eligibility...