Stephanie Cuthbert Discusses Utility Infrastructure Prioritization

Municipalities in the U.S. are facing several challenges with their water and wastewater utilities including aging infrastructure, rising costs, emerging contaminants and increasing regulations. This often forces reactive responses and short-term decisions rather than addressing the longer-term issues and developing sustainable solutions. To shift from crisis response to long-term resilience, communities must be adaptive, better understand and use data, explore innovative treatment solutions and be willing to rethink funding models

Stephanie Cuthbert, PE, CME, Water Practice Director, Northeast, has over 30 years of experience providing planning and engineering services to utility clients. She has worked with multiple municipalities on facility redesigns, upgrades and expansions, long-term capital planning and obtaining funding for essential infrastructure projects. In an article for Informed Infrastructure, she discusses Rethinking Infrastructure Prioritization in an Era of Scarcity.