Drinking water and wastewater treatment is essential, not only to a city or a community, but to even a single household. The service you provide to your community is essential to the health and safety of your customers, you have the profound obligation to ensure that your utility’s finances are managed properly to support the continual provision of essential water-related services where you live. Your utility can sink or swim based on its financial standing. An informed plan for continuity is essential and, while there is no foolproof way to prevent fraud, errors and omissions, a clear, well-documented set of financial controls communicated to staff will minimize exposure. In this webinar, we will glimpse into the consequences of real life utilities that operated with inadequate or non-existent financial policies and how the situations they faced could be avoided. Presenter: Mary Fleming, RDS Environmental, RCAC

  Presented by Mary Fleming, RDS Environmental, RCAC. Drinking water and wastewater treatment is essential, not only to a city or a community, but to even a single household. The service you provide to your community is essential to the health and safety of your customers, you have the profound obligation to ensure that your utility’s finances are managed properly to support the continual provision of essential water-related services where you live. Your utility can sink or swim based on its financial standing. An informed plan for continuity is essential and, while there is no foolproof way to prevent fraud, errors and omissions, a clear, well-documented set of financial controls communicated to staff will minimize exposure. In this webinar, we will glimpse into the consequences of real life utilities that operated with inadequate or non-existent financial policies and how the situations they faced could be avoided.

Nearly four percent of the nation’s electricity is consumed by water and wastewater facilities, and industry experts are predicting that energy costs could increase 20 percent by 2035. Water and wastewater treatment costs often consume 50 percent or more of the budget of many small communities. Historically, water and wastewater facilities were designed for peak capacity, with little consideration for operational efficiency. An energy audit performed by trained and certified personnel can often uncover potential energy savings of 10 to 50 percent annually, but even a cursory examination done by in-house staff can often result in substantial energy savings. In this webinar, you will learn: • How to identify the biggest “energy wasters” in your operation • How to calculate the break-even point (payback) of retrofitting obsolete equipment • The difference between Level 1 (in-house) and Level 2 (contracted) energy audits • How to conduct a cursory energy audit of your facility Who should attend: This workshop will give all water systems the information and resources needed to start down the path toward increased efficiency and decreased costs. Recommended audience is system operators, managers, board members and community leaders with an interest in energy cost reduction.