Tools for climate change, water, and environmental justice
Risk assessment tools for water utilities and communities.
Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated
December 20, 2023
Overview
There are various interactive and free webtools published to give information on climate change, water, equity, and environmental justice. These tools can help communities and water utilities to understand their risk and vulnerabilities, plan for increased resilience, support grant proposals, strategize capital improvements, and inform decisions. They also help communities to increase their resilience against disasters and climate change impacts through adaptation measures.
This website compiles an overview of these tools to help you find what tools suit the needs of your community or project. Note that while these tools provide valuable information, datasets with nationwide availability use data that are often modeled, may be outdated, may lack local context, and may not describe the reality in your community adequately. There can be uncertainty in demographic and environmental data, especially when looking at a small geographic area. The same risk score in two communities does not mean the risks are equal or comparable.
Building Green Solutions with EPA’s OSG Program
Watch the recording of WaterNow's August 24, 2023 webinar, Building Green Solutions with EPA’s Sewer Overflow and Stormwater Reuse Municipal Grant Program webinar. You can download the slides here.
Building Green Solutions with EPA’s OSG Program
Click the link below to download the slides from WaterNow's August 24, 2023 webinar, Building Green Solutions with EPA’s Sewer Overflow and Stormwater Reuse Municipal Grant Program. You can watch the recording of the webinar here.
Water Leadership Development Open House: Slides
Click the link below to download the slides from WaterNow's August 24, 2023 webinar. You can watch the recording here.
Navigating Green Infrastructure Operation & Maintenance
Click the link below to download the slides from WaterNow's May 24, 2023 webinar.
Webinar Slides: Unlocking the Power of PA’s State Revolving Funds
Click the link below to download the slides from WaterNow's May 31, 2023 webinar.
Webinar Slides: Where to Start for Federal Funding Opportunities
Click the link below to download the slides from WaterNow's May 24, 2023 webinar.
Leveraging Capital Markets to Accelerate LSLR
Click the link below to download the slides from WaterNow's February 1, 2023, Leveraging Capital Markets to Accelerate Lead Service Line Replacements webinar. You can watch the webinar recording here.
Leveraging Capital Markets to Accelerate LSLR
Watch WaterNow’s Leveraging Capital Markets to Accelerate Lead Service Line Replacements webinar. You can download the slides here.
GASB 62 Guidance
GASB 62: Guidance Clarifying Regulated Operations Accounting Applies to Water Utilities
In 2010 the Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) issued Statement No. 62, which establishes an alternative to Concept 4 for expenditures on “business type activities” that are not annual expenses but also do not produce conventional assets. GASB 62 authorizes public agencies to book these expenditures as “regulatory assets” that can be capitalized. Regulatory accounting does not require that the utility own or control the asset in order to capitalize the cost; the asset is the binding promise to repay the loan, not the items procured or produced with the loan. Guidance issued in 2018 makes it clear that the regulated assets approach is available to any public water resource entity seeking to access capital for consumer rebate programs of any kind as long as the Statement 62 requirements are met.
Click the link below to download the guidance.
