EPA Water Affordability Compendium Considers New Rate Structures

May 2, 2016
EPA’s long-awaited document intended to help water utilities address customers’ ability to pay their drinking water and wastewater bills includes a call to examine factors such as variable rate structures and burdens on renters versus homeowners -- something the agency had not previously included in official affordability documents but which environmentalists had urged. EPA’s Water Infrastructure and Resiliency Financing Center (WIRFC) released April 19 its “ compendium ” of Drinking Water and Wastewater Utility Customer Assistance Programs. The document is...


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