This Thursday, July 21, at 4:00 p.m. ET, the Water Research Foundation (WRF) will host a one-hour webcast on Capital Funding Imperatives: Best Practices for Capital Improvement Programs. The session will focus on a WRF project of the same name, which was conducted to advance the state of knowledge and resources available to utilities in advancing priority capital projects from concept to execution stage. The six focus areas addressed by the project include:
- balancing system development needs with infrastructure renewal needs;
- program implementation approaches and systems;
- business case evaluations;
- prioritization of projects and initiatives;
- increasing stakeholder involvement and customer research (in planning/prioritization and program implementation); and
- capital program funding approval and resourcing processes.
The webcast will feature case studies from Toho Water Authority and Austin Water. Register online with the webcast registration code: 0004932.