Why is Financial Assessment Important?
Providing safe drinking water is the most necessary endeavor your community can undertake. To ensure you are providing safe drinking water, your water system needs to have the financial resources to renew and replace equipment, test water for pollutants, take corrective actions and meet other service and financial obligations - to constituents, creditors, consumers, taxpayers, and suppliers.
To deliver safe water, your water utility needs to have a secure water fund.
To ensure a secure water fund, your utility should have three primary "capacities": technical expertise, managerial ability, and financial resources.
Systems with good TMF Capacity are more likely to provide safe, reliable, and affordable drinking water.
Using TMF capacity measures, you can track your water system's financial ability to do the most critical job in your community - provide safe drinking water.
The Environmental Finance Center is a national leader in designing and testing SDWA drinking water systems capacity assessment methodologies. The EFC also assists the states in improving institutional capacity and in formulating and implementing drinking water program capacity development strategies, as required by SDWA.
SDWA Capacity Development Reports
You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to view and print these files. If you do not already have Adobe Acrobat Reader, click the link for a free download of the program.
