Authors

• Roshan Puri – University of Idaho
• Alexander Maas – University of Idaho

Purpose

To identify the state of, barriers and solutions to co-funding and collaborating across water services in order to create an integrated and efficient water system.

Description

A survey of 40 questions was collected at municipal and utility level using surveymonkey.com. Data were collected from 91 utilities across 9 study regions of UWIN (Atlanta, Boston, Baltimore, Colorado, Florida, Michigan, Oregon, South California and Sun Corridor). This collection process lasted from July 2017 to September 2018.  Data provides important information on barriers to co-funding and collaborating with different water service types (drinking water, wastewater, stormwater, reclaimed water). Other highlights are information about size of utility, revenues generated by different water service types, their operating and maintenance cost, financial outlook, combinations of different water services, non-rate based revenue sources, requirements to co-funding stormwater projects,  funding sources & barriers to funding for green infrastructure.