Sustainable Financial Planning for Water Quality Improvement and Management

摘要

Apart from drinking water and wastewater utility fees, management of water resources tends to be at the mercy of whatever grants happen to be available at a particular point in time. While grant funding is an important source of watershed management efforts, it does not always facilitate the holistic, long-term management of water resources. It goes without saying that each watershed is unique. When the biggest problems in a given watershed do not match the activities that grant agencies have chosen to focus their funds on, management efforts are stranded. Evolving toward a more sustainable method of financing water quality efforts serves to address this problem. Where funding for water quality efforts can be generated by the people living within a watershed or political jurisdiction, overall management of the resource stands a better chance.