WRF Publishes Water Utility Partnerships: Resource Guide and Toolbox

The Water Research Foundation recently published its Water Utility Partnerships: Resource Guide and Toolbox. This Guide assists professionals in the water sector identify utility partnerships or collaborative opportunities between multiple utilities. The Guide covers issues with evaluating potential utility collaboration by providing a framework that utilities can use during the decision process of  developing a partnership. The framework takes water professionals through a step process in three phases to successfully utilize a partnership: research, evaluation, and finalization.

This Resource Guide gives tips for engaging multiple team members, such as decision makers, utility managers and staff, local elected officials, and community leaders to create a successful partnership. Additional resources and white papers exploring utility partnerships can also be found in this Guide. Click here for more information.