Global water market data and insights provider Bluefield Research has released an annual report showing that U.S. household water and sewer bills hit a five-year high in 2025, rising 5.1% and outpacing inflation. Bluefield’s annual U.S. Municipal Water & Sewer Rate Index benchmarks utilities in 50 citiesRead More The post Bluefield: U.S. water, sewer bills rising, outpacing inflation appeared first on Water Finance & Management.

Urban growth is filling in the buffers around utility corridors. Upstream land conversion is raising treatment costs. Legacy site liabilities are repricing under tighter regulatory timelines. Land-related risk is already inside most water utility budgets — it just hasn't been labeled that way. This post maps the risk categories and the operational protocol response.

Communities sound the alarm on data centres using local water and energy supplies to cool their operations.

A coalition of public water, wastewater and flood control agencies across the Bay Area that includes the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, has deployed an advanced weather radar network...

A source of life, an all-powerful element and a key part of the purification process – water is deeply rooted in traditional beliefs and constitutes the most universal sacred element in human history. This spiritual symbolism, however, does not protect it from the mundane problem of dangerous pollution.

The collapse of Arizona's CAP irrigation districts in the early 1990s was not an inevitable consequence of geography, drought, or bad luck. It was the predictable outcome of decisions made decades earlier — decisions to commit to infrastructure costs that economic analysis had already shown were unaffordable, to suppress warning signals that challenged a politically important project, and to lock district finances into contractual structures with no escape provision when reality diverged from projection. In January 1994, the Central Arizona Irrigation and Drainage District became the first federally supported irrigation district in U.S. history to file for bankruptcy. A second filing followed in August. Neither event was a surprise to anyone who had read the right documents. This post traces the three institutional failure patterns that made collapse inevitable — and what water utilities managing long-term supply contracts and capital commitments can learn from them today.