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		<title>Johnson Foundation to Water Utilities: Start Charging Full Cost!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:45:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Mumm</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new report issued by the Johnson Foundation called Financing Sustainable Water Infrastructure concludes that  the financial health of our water systems is directly linked to their long-term sustainability. matching the full costs to maintain the system to consistent revenues—is so rarely practiced that the sector as a whole could benefit from guidance.&#8221; (pg. 15) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WIFIA What? The Newest Water Financing Proposal to Congress</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 23:16:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Mumm</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Frequent readers of our blog will know that we often discuss the gap that exists between the need for capital investment in the water/wastewater sector, and the availability of both the necessary capital as well as the ability to repay debt.  Indeed, our most recent blog post, Water Rate Affordability (Dec. 26, 2011), presents a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The First Sign of a Labor Shortage: Skills Gap</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 03:31:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Mumm</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a couple of presentations I&#8217;ve given in the past few months, I&#8217;ve talked about one of the key drivers in the water and wastewater utility industry being a pending shortfall in the labor pool.  One of the leading indicators of a shortage is not the lack of employable people, but rather the lack of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is the Infrastructure Bank a Real Solution for the Infrastructure Gap?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 17:31:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Mumm</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So much has been said about our nation&#8217;s failing water infrastructure that another blog post would hardly do the topic justice.  We&#8217;ve done plenty of them here already (here, for example).  There have been many who have done well to help us identify the problem, and the problem is an imminently solvable one.  We know [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Best Summary of Plight of Small Utility Systems</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Aug 2011 18:03:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Mumm</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Readers of this blog know by now that the financial impact of water and sewer infrastructure needs in local communities is a big one.  For moderately sized utilities, the impact is big enough, for very small utilities, the impacts can be completely unmanageable as seen in the below linked article from The News Star in [...]]]></description>
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