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Water Equity

Water services affordability in the context of the COVID recession

  • Learning opportunities and resources
    • Water Affordability Community of Practice for city leaders – webinar on 12/17
    • Aspen-Nichols Water Forum summary: Long-Term Water Affordability & Financial Resilience
  • Shutoff Solution Cases
    • Detroit water shutoff ban extended to 2022, may become permanent
  • Customer Assistance Program Improvement/Debt Forgiveness Cases
    • Buffalo offers parking ticket, water bill amnesty; traffic fines based on income (shutoffs penalties forgiveness ends Dec 31st)
    • South Bend case study: Wastewater Low-Income Customer Assistance Program
    • San Francisco switched to self-reporting income to improve access to their emergency CAP
    • Seattle also changed the flexibility of their emergency CAP – customers put less down and have an extended time period to pay
    • LADWP redirected CARES funding to provide $500 grants to customers
    • Greater Cincinnati Water Works Economic Hardship Water Debt Forgiveness Program
  • Fundamental Rate Structure / Systems-level adjustment Cases
    • Legal Pathways to Income-Based Drinking Water Rates in Michigan (released April 2020)

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