Utility/Asset Management

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WE&RF will provide decision support tools, techniques, and methods that wastewater agencies can use to implement an asset management program. These devices can be integrated into the existing SIMPLE (Sustainable Infrastructure Management Program Learning Environment) knowledge base. WE&RF also will develop a toolbox that facilities can use to communicate the benefits of implementing an asset management program.

Implementing Asset Management: A Practical Guide
Faced with the challenges of aging infrastructure, the lack of funding, and the desire to maintain affordable rates, while meeting the customers’ needs, utility managers are looking for more effective ways to make decisions about capital improvement and infrastructure maintenance.
https://www.e-wef.org/Store/ProductDetails.aspx?productId=4130

Financing & Charges for Wastewater Systems
Focusing on issues of increasing urgency, this comprehensive manual of practice teaches the reader expert methods for handling all financial aspects of wastewater collection and treatment. Created and peer-reviewed by international authorities at the Water Environment Federation.
https://www.e-wef.org/Store/ProductDetails.aspx?productId=6916

Fundamentals of Utility Management
This manual is intended for water and wastewater utility operations professionals who aspire to or have been promoted to management or leadership positions. Utility managers must be knowledgeable in the areas of personnel management, budgeting and financial management, and communications.
https://www.e-wef.org/Store/ProductDetails.aspx?productId=17661

Effective Utility Management (EUM) Primer for Water and Wastewater Utilities

Moving Toward Sustainability: Sustainable and Effective Practices for Creating Your Own Water Utility Roadmap - This document builds on the Effective Utility Management framework. It provides utilities of various sizes with a series of proven and effective practices to help achieve the outcomes in Effective Utility Management.

WEF has been successful at striving toward asset management objectives through the use of a “maturity model” approach with the development of three Resource Recovery Roadmaps, on Energy (2012), and Nutrient Management (2014), and Water Reuse (2016). The goal of the Resource Recovery Roadmaps is to develop a high-level approach to help guide utilities and industry decision makers in issues when considering the NEW paradigm (Nutrients, Energy, and Water). The Roadmaps are brief and high-level to be accessible to all types of stakeholders, including public officials, utility managers, operators, engineers, and regulators. They do not "reinvent the wheel," with all of the great technical resources available. Rather, the focus is to help decision makers quickly understand the strategic issues inherent in a water reuse effort.

In 2013, NACWA, the Water Environment Federation and the Water Environment Research Foundation released the Water Resources Utility of the Future… Blueprint for Action to capture the groundbreaking transformation happening at wastewater utilities as they progressed beyond simply complying with the Clean Water Act.

Recent Webcast Recordings

UTILITY MANAGEMENT: Intelligent Water Systems: A Smart Start (11-2-2016)
 
UTILITY MANAGEMENT: Incorporating Benchmarking and Performance Measurement into Your Utility’s Culture and Lessons Learned from Leading Experts

UTILITY MANAGEMENT: Advancing Asset Management in Your Utility: Performance, Sustainability, and Resiliency Management (9-2-2015)