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Water Efficiency is a Good Business Proposition

Submitted on September 4, 2018

The following op-ed by Mary Ann Dickinson, AWE President & CEO and CalWEP Executive Director, was published August 9, 2018 in the Sacramento Business Journal. Click here for the original publication.  "When you think about dry cleaning, water might not...

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New Study Demonstrates Water Conservation’s Pay Off for Ratepayers

Submitted on September 4, 2018

SACRAMENTO–Are Los Angeles ratepayers better off by conserving water over the long term? That’s the question explored in a new study released by the California Water Efficiency Partnership (CalWEP) and Alliance for Water Efficiency in partnership with the Los Angeles...

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2018 AWE Annual Member Meeting & Reception

Submitted on August 22, 2018

AWE is pleased to announce that at its annual member meeting and reception in Las Vegas on Tuesday, October 2, 2018 the featured speaker will be Dr. Frank Loge, Director of the U.C. Davis Center for Water-Energy Efficiency. Frank’s talk...

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Resisting the Fix: Pushing Back on the Impulse to Raise Fixed Water Charges

Submitted on February 28, 2017

By Janice A. Beecher, Ph.D. Director, Institute of Public Utilities, Michigan State University In the wake of flat or falling sales revenues, many a water (and energy) utility have turned to the idea of raising fixed charges. This might seem...

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Ten Reasons Why Water Utilities Resist Looking for Non-Revenue Water

Submitted on February 29, 2016

Submitted by Mary Ann Dickinson, President and CEO Utilities nationwide are facing incredible costs to upgrade aging and inadequate infrastructure and address challenges related to drinking water, wastewater, and storm water management – estimated at $600 billion by the EPA or up to $1...

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