Encourage water utilities to adopt a risk management strategy and to identify strategic risks, such as risks to a safe, acceptable, and reliable water supply.  Risks for this category, for example, can include failure to meet requirements of the Safe Drinking Water Act; inappropriate catchment management; and failure to plan for growth and changes in demand.  [NOTE: Finding based on one case study.]

Beyond the Community 
The learning experience: Builds value for education as part of policy development and implementation.
The learning experience: Builds skills for flexibility and responsiveness to environmental issues and for facilitating community engagement.

Citation: Dalgleish, F., & Cooper, B. J. (2005). Risk management: Developing a framework for a water authority. Management of Environmental Quality, 16(3), 235-249.
Citation Type: Research