Working together, a path to water viability : South Carolina water utility assessment & viability strategy

Abstract

Viable water utilities - which provide drinking water and/or wastewater services - are essential to the continued growth of South Carolina’s economy, the preservation of its water resources and, most importantly, the protection of the health of its people. This assessment of the state’s public water utilities resulted in the identification of indicators that are most likely to signal that a utility may be trending toward non-viability and led to the development of initial recommended steps that can be taken to proactively provide assistance to those utilities through a coordinated statewide strategy