Finding effective and innovative ways to protect public health.
Region 8 Environmental Finance Center
What do we do?
NRWA’s EFC helps communities find effective and innovative ways to help address the growing costs of protecting public health and the environment in a sustainable and equitable manner.
The EFC provides finance-related training, technical assistance, finance studies, and other analytical support to help guide communities’ critical environmental infrastructure consisting of drinking water, sanitary sewer, and storm sewer systems on lowering costs, increasing investments, improving financial capacity, encouraging full cost pricing, and identifying and evaluating financing options.
NRWA was selected in April 2017 to establish the Region 8 Environmental Finance Center (EFC) in order to provide environmental finance expertise and outreach to regulated communities to help them meet environmental requirements.
What is NRWA?
The National Rural Water Association (NRWA) is dedicated to training, supporting, and promoting water and wastewater professionals that serve small communities across the United States. NRWA provides training and technical assistance throughout all 50 states. Through affiliated State Rural Water offices, NRWA currently serves over 30,000 system members. In the past year, State Rural Water Affiliate staff delivered over 75,000 on-site technical assistance visits and 150,000 hours of training to more than 37,000 utilities. NRWA training and technical assistance covers every aspect of operating, managing, and financing water and wastewater utilities.