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Updated: 3/31/2020

Water Affordability

Articles/Reports/Papers

• Addressing Affordability as a Necessary Element of Full-Cost Pricing (Mehan and Galler, 2017)
• Advancing methods for research on household water insecurity: Studying entitlements and capabilities, socio-cultural dynamics, and political processes, institutions and governance (Wutich, et. al, 2017)
• Affordability of Utilities’ Services: Extent, Practice, Policy (Waddams and Deller, 2015)
• An Equitable Water Future Louisville (US Water Alliance)
• Assessing the Sustainability of Urban Water Supply Systems (Richter, et. al. 2018)
• Avoiding Billing Debacles Around New Water or Sewer Rates (Clumpner and Henry, 2018)
• City of Detroit Blue Ribbon Panel on Affordability (2016)
• Developing a New Framework for Community Affordability of Clean Water Services (National Academy of Public Administration, 2017)
• Developing a New Framework for Household Affordability and Financial Capability Assessment in the Water Sector (Raucher, Rothstein, & Mastracchio, 2019)
• Flint Water Interagency Coordinating Committee Resolutions (2017)
• Measuring affordability of access to clean water: A coping cost approach (Amit, 2019)
• Measuring Household Affordability for Water and Sewer Utilities (Teodoro, 2018)
• Measuring Water and Sewer Service Affordability (Zarella and Ake, 2019)
  Navigating Legal Pathways to Rate-Funded Customer Assistance Programs: A Guide for Water and Wastewater Utilities (2017)
• Review and Recommendations for Implementing Water and Wastewater Affordability Programs in the United States (National Consumer Law Center, 2014)
• Safeguarding Water Affordability (2017)
• Six unique load shapes: A segmentation analysis of Illinois residential electricity consumers (Zethmayra & Makhijaa)
• The Accessibility Trap: Maryland’s Invisible Water Crisis (The Center for Water Security and Cooperation 2019)
• S&P Water Affordability (2018)
• Water/Color a Study of Race & the Water Affordability Crisis in America’s Cities (May 2019)

Assessment Tool

• Water And Wastewater Residential Rates Affordability Assessment Tool (2018)