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Changing Contexts for Waste Water
Treatment and Solid Waste Management
David Eberle
Idaho Power Company
Rates & Contracts
Adjunct Professor
Regulatory & Environmental Economics
Corporate Director
Real Estate & Manufacturing
Consultant
Asset Management, TIF, DIF, CIPs, URDs
Commissioner
Capital City Urban Renewal District
Community Infrastructure District
Council Member
Boise City Council
Director, Environmental Finance Center
A World Under Stress
Human Numbers: A.D. 1000
Human Numbers: 1927
Human Numbers: 1999
Human Numbers: 2050
Are we an
invasive
species?
Can you
identify the
pattern?
Correlation
with
population
and climate
change
What Does This Mean for Local
Communities and Operators?
More Stringent Regulations
More Expensive Inputs
Economic Instability
Intergenerational Conflicts
How Should Local
Communities and
Operators Respond?
Impact One:
The Governmental Budget Landscape
Health & Human Services
Defense
EPA
Interest
Financial Capacity Dashboards
Impact Two – Climate Change
Global warming raises snow line increasing
the surface area for water runoff increasing
flooding
Climate variability increases the severity
of any one storm event
Disaster Preparedness and
Infrastructure Resilience/Resistance
Impact Three: The New Regulatory Landscape
Sustainable Cities
• Green Infrastructure
NPDES
• Quantifiable TMDLs
Environmental Justice
• Hazardous waste stream
Market Based Policies
• Nutrient Trading
Air Quality
• 2.5 PM
• Release of metals (mercury)
THE PROBLEM:
Limited resources, impaired surface water
quality, hazardous waste streams, new
regulations, and changing climate
The current approach has
not worked and is becoming
ever more expensive
Solutions on How to Pay for the New Context
Retail Trade
Forestry
Agriculture
Mining
Legal Framework
National
State
Manufacturing
Transportation
Districts
Recreation
Land use
Integrated
Spatial
Planning
Local
Institutional Support
Human
Habitat
H20 Resources
Air Quality
Back to The Future:
Where By-Products Are Profit Centers
• Biosolids for production of alfalfa
• Extraction of struvite for fertilizer
• Combined heat and power anaerobic
digesters for plant power
• Offset trades with
agriculture as a cost
minimization strategy
Road Blocks to Successful Implementation
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Councils
Regulatory Indecision
Poor financial management
Economic recessions
Getting Your Board Council Or Members
To Plan For The Future
Educating Your Customers
Working With Your Legislative Delegation
What Does The Future Hold?
Will we raise taxes or cut spending?
Will new regulations bury small
communities?
Will we grow out of the recession?
Will the world events hold US economy
hostage?
Will global warming overwhelm us?
Only Zelda knows
Thank you
David Eberle
Environmental Finance Center
Boise State University
(208) 426-4293
[email protected]
www.efc.boisestate.edu