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AWWA ACE70734
- Socially Responsible Investment in Water Quality: Balancing Community Priorities and Pricing
- Conference Proceeding by American Water Works Association, 11/01/2009
- Publisher: AWWA
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This powerpoint presentation begins by providing a brief overview of global perspectives on the evolving role of water/wastewater utilities that places greater focus on sustainability, affordability, and social responsibility. Inadequacies of traditional paradigms are presented, along with a portfolio management framework that includes: effective prioritization enables utilities tofulfill fiduciary responsibilities; formal prioritization enables balancing of impacts; and, redefining "revenue requirements" toenable exercise of evolving role. Implications indicate that the evolving water utility role requires evolutionof investment and pricing paradigms. Includes figures.