AWWA ACE65380

AWWA ACE65380 Sustainability: What Does It Really Mean and How Do Water Utilities Get There?
Conference Proceeding by American Water Works Association, 06/01/2007

Raucher, Bob; Cromwell, John

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This powerpoint presentation defines a sustainable utility ascontinuously obtaining inputs, producing quality outputs,and recovering costs - despite continual changes in theoperating environment. It suggests that a utility achieves sustainability by continually looking ahead to see change coming, andmaking the right changes at the right time (using tools such asBCA / TBL, and using scenario or threshold approaches).A utility can determine it is on the right path to sustainability when it can explain the changes it is making insimple benefit-cost (B-C) terms relating to the triple bottom line (TBL). Includes figures.