Water Affordability – Water Finance Center
Explore creative strategies, resources, and pricing structures for consumers and utilities to better understand and address the need for affordable drinking water and wastewater services.
Explore creative strategies, resources, and pricing structures for consumers and utilities to better understand and address the need for affordable drinking water and wastewater services.
Information for water systems on how to keep their community engaged and informed on LSLR.
The Area Deprivation Index includes factors like income, education, employment, and housing quality to generate rankings of neighborhoods by socioeconomic disadvantage at the state or national level.
A compendium of examples where disclosure laws and ordinances have been adopted across the country.
This webpage features resources providing guidance on federal and funding sources for lead service line replacement and laws related to this funding.
The National Center for Healthy Housing outlines how EPA’s updated Lead and Copper Rule mandates full lead service line replacement within 10 years, lowers the lead action level, and expands public education requirements—highlighting the critical role of public health agencies in community outreach and response.
EPA’s fact sheet outlines requirements under the 2021 Lead and Copper Rule Revisions.
This user guide offers a comprehensive roadmap to help stakeholders leverage federal investments for infrastructure modernization, job creation, and environmental improvements across key sectors.
This report provides best practices for lead service line replacement based on lessons learned from the Lead-Free Water Challenge.
This memorandum provides information and guidelines on how EPA will award and administer SRF Capitalization Grants appropriated to the State and Tribal Assistance Grants (STAG) account in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL), also known as the “Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021” (IIJA).