FUNDING RESOURCES

• How A Tiny Water Utility Pieced Together Millions In Infrastructure Funding

  While no major municipal water utility has ever claimed to be overfunded, it is much easier to cover the cost of large projects when it can be spread across hundreds of thousands of residents. But this is a stark contrast to the mathematical reality of smaller utilities like the Madison Community Services District (CSD). Its small size can make it difficult to attract the attention of those who control the purse strings for major projects.

• America's Water Crisis Is A Crisis Of Inaction

  A breakthrough in southwest Missouri shows what communities can accomplish when they stop postponing difficult infrastructure decisions.

• Pay Today Or Pay Tomorrow? Choosing The Right Clarifier Materials

  Submerged clarifier components force a trade between purchase price and long-term corrosion risk. Galvanized steel, coated steel, and stainless each carry different failure modes, maintenance burdens, and ownership costs.

• Everything You Know About MBR Has Changed

  The NXT|MBR pairs membrane treatment with durable shotcrete construction to reduce capital costs, streamline operations, and strengthen wastewater treatment resilience.

• City Of Topeka, Kansas: Predict, Prioritize, Protect Case Study

  A three-engineer utility team managing $6.5 million in annual waterline replacement moved past age and break history, using risk modeling to direct capital toward the segments most likely to fail.

• The Cost Of Waiting: Utilities Face A Narrowing PFAS Compliance Window

  For years, the water industry's PFAS conversation centered on monitoring, testing, and regulatory anticipation. Today, that phase is largely over.
• The Single Greatest Predictor Of Water Project Success Isn't Technology — It's The Delivery Model

  Why America’s $625 billion water infrastructure gap demands a new way of building, financing, and operating municipal water plants, and what Fort Lauderdale’s Prospect Lake project shows us about getting it right.
• Billions Flow Into Water Treatment Plant Modernization Projects

  Water treatment facilities have become one of the fastest-growing segments of the public infrastructure marketplace as communities across America confront decades of deferred maintenance, increasingly stringent water-quality standards, population growth, and emerging contaminants.
• What Experience Taught Medford About AMI

  See how Medford, Massachusetts, used years of AMI experience to prioritize reliability, improve leak detection, enhance billing accuracy, and guide future infrastructure decisions.

• What 15 Years Of AMI Experience Has Taught Utilities

  Fifteen years after AMI adoption, utilities are redefining success by prioritizing proven reliability, trusted data, resilient networks, intuitive software, and long-term vendor partnerships.