Strategic Business Planning as a Water Resource Management Tool

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Identifies, using a case study approach, how utilities can address the combined impacts of multiple rule requirements through water resource management. Emphasizes the trade-offs that are sometimes necessary to comply with seemingly conflicting requirements (e.g., balancing disinfection targets and disinfection by-product minimization). Research partners: USEPA and ACWA. Published in 2002. (Still available to Foundation subscribers as Order 90905.)

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Strategic Business Planning as a Water Resource Management Tool

Abstract

Resources

Strategic Business Planning as a Water Resource Management Tool

Implementing Ecosystem Service and Natural and Social Capital Accounting Approaches

Deregulation! Impacts on the Water Industry

Advancing Benefits and Co-Benefits Quantification and Monetization for Green Stormwater Infrastructure: An Interactive Guidebook for Comparison Case Studies

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Your Water System is Not Isolated - Interdependencies are Important