Determining Wastewater Utility Charges: Budgeting and Rate Reviews

摘要

Wastewater utilities are continually looking for new and better ways of predicting and determining how their budget dollars will be spent, and more importantly, where the money will come from. In Muscatine, Iowa, the local wastewater utility has hit upon an innovative, yet simple, method for taking the guesswork out of determining what impact annual budgeting will have on rates. In fact, it actually helps drive the budgeting process.