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Updated: 2/9/2023
Water Affordability
Articles
- Addressing Affordability as a Necessary Element of Full-Cost Pricing (Mehan and Galler, 2017)
- 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)
- Challenges and Innovations: Current and Future States of Water Affordability (Berahzer 2019)
- Defining & Measuring Water Affordability: A Literature Review (2019)
- Flawed Analysis Muddies the Water on Water Affordability (Osann 2016)
- How Water Sense Partners Incorporate Water Efficiency Into Affordability Programs
- Water Affordability in Northeastern Illinois: Addressing Water Equity in a Time of Rising Costs (2020)
- Water Affordability is Not Just a Local Challenge, But a Federal One Too (Kane 2018)
- Water Affordability Programs & Policies: A National Review (2019)
- Water Service Affordability in Michigan: A Statewide Assessment (2021)
Reports
- A Study of Race & the Water Affordability Crisis in America’s Cities (Montag 2019)
- Affordability of Utilities’ Services: Extent, Practice, Policy (Waddams and Deller, 2015)
- An Equitable Water Future Louisville (US Water Alliance)
- A Promising Water Pricing Model for Equity and Financial Resilience (US Water Alliance and Stantec, 2022).
- 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 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)
- The Accessibility Trap: Maryland’s Invisible Water Crisis (The Center for Water Security and Cooperation 2019)
- In Twelve U.S. Cities: A Social, Business and Environmental Concern (Colton 2020)
- The Invisible Crisis: Water Unaffordability in the United States (Jones and Moulton 2016)
- S&P Water Affordability (2018)
- Safeguarding Water Affordability (Bipartisan Policy Center 2017)
- Water/Color a Study of Race & the Water Affordability Crisis in America’s Cities (May 2019)
Papers
- A Burgeoning Crisis? A Nationwide Assessment of the Geography of Water Affordability in the United States (Mack and Wrase 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)
- Measuring affordability of access to clean water: A coping cost approach (Amit, 2019)
- Measuring Drinking Water Affordability and Sustainability (Goddard 2019)
- Measuring Household Affordability for Water and Sewer Utilities (Teodoro, 2018)
- Six unique load shapes: A segmentation analysis of Illinois residential electricity consumers (Zethmayra and Makhijaa)
- Smart water management: can it improve accessibility and affordability of water for everyone? (Grigg 2020)
Assessment Tools
- Affordability Assessment Tool for Federal Water Mandates (2013)
- Water And Wastewater Residential Rates Affordability Assessment Tool (2018)