 
      
      Understanding Set-Aside Funds: Strengthening Water Systems Beyond Infrastructure
 
      
      State Policies Impacting SRF Assistance to State-Defined Disadvantaged Communities
 
      
      How States’ Disadvantaged Community Definitions Can Prioritize Access to SRFs for Under-Resourced Communities
 
      
      Optimizing Interest Rate and Other Loan Policies for SRF Financing
 
      
      Southern States Drinking Water State Revolving Fund: Quantitative Analyses
 
      
      Clean Water SRF Financing for Decentralized Septic Projects
 
      
      New Project: National Drinking Water Explorer Tool
All Americans deserve safe, reliable, and affordable drinking water. But making sure that everyone has access remains a challenge that requires untangling a complex web of interdependent factors. EPIC is planning to scale our Texas-based tool nation-wide in order to support communities, map the utility landscape across the U.S., and help states to prioritize investments and technical assistance to improve drinking water infrastructure.
 
      
      Turning Pay for Success Theory into Practice: Imagining the Future in Milwaukee
 
      
      Addressing GSI Challenges and Opening Up Opportunities with a Pay for Success Model
 
      
      EPIC Calls on EPA to Improve Lead Service Line Funding Allocations
 
      
      Stormwater Incentive Programs: Keys for Success
Stormwater Incentive Programs are important tools to address stormwater runoff from private property. Numerous examples exist, and they vary in their benefits and challenges.
 
      
      A New Era For Water Management: Harnessing GIS Innovations and Collaboration for a Resilient Future
 
      
      Clean Water and Drinking Water SRF Financial Terms, Conditions, Definitions, and Other Application Information
 
      
      CWSRF Sponsorship Programs: Swipe Right to Match Point Source Projects with Nonpoint Source Projects
Since the passage of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL), there has been an interest from many quarters to direct a larger portion of these funds towards green stormwater infrastructure (GSI) projects. While the Clean Water State Revolving Fund (CWSRF) has funded some GSI and other nonpoint source projects over the years, it remains a very small percentage of overall spending.
 
      
      Zero-Percent Interest Loans Make Lead Pipe Replacement Affordable in Many States
 
      
      Stretching the Dollar to Get the Lead Out: Lead Service Line Contracting
 
      
      Looking for Clues on Lead Service Line Inventories in the 7th DWINSA Update
As the initial service line material inventory deadline passes, we’re examining the updated 7th DWINSA survey results for clues of what we might expect from this forthcoming data.
In this blog, Phil Cork investigates national trends and what we learned from these updated survey results.
 
      
      Here’s why Milwaukee and Wisconsin are models for lead pipe replacement - and why President Joe Biden is there delivering the Biden-Harris swan song on lead in drinking water
 
      
      A deep dive into EPA’s Lead Service Line Replacement Funding Allotment Formula
 
      
      
