Blended Capital & Grants for Water
The traditional stack is maxed out.
Water utilities have entered a new cost era.
AWWA puts 25-year drinking-water needs at $2.1–2.4 trillion. This is a roughly $57 billion annual gap.
Xylem pegs the sector shortfall at $110 billion a year, rising toward $194 billion by 2030.
The IIJA infusion expires after FY2026,
SRFs and grants are oversubscribed and slow,
Customer rates can't absorb the rest without doubling household bills.
Your priority projects can't wait for a system that's out of room.
That's the gap we close.
How we close the gap
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In collaboration with your existing team.
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Three phases: Diagnose, Build, Sustain.
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Start small and scale as the value proves out.
Funding Diagnostic
We work through your capital improvement plan project by project and match each one to the funding and financing it can realistically win. We screen every option for three things: affordable, available, and attainable.
Blended Capital Structuring
We collaborate with your current team to layer public credit, grants, philanthropic, corporate, private, and climate capital so no single source has to carry the project.
Grant Sourcing & Management
End-to-end grant work including sourcing, writing, compliance. We have a 90% win rate.
Rate-Case Funding Support
Documented proof that every reasonable alternative was pursued prudence evidence that strengthens your case.
Blended funding, beyond the EPA programs
Water projects drive economic development, community health, and a healthier environment. We fund them through those programs too, not just the SRFs and WIFIA, so your capital plan keeps moving when federal money tightens.
Every source, not just the EPA programs.
We work the whole field of funding, not the one or two programs a typical advisor knows. Grants, low-cost public capital, private placement, and cross-sector program dollars all come into play, so your capital plan does not stall when the SRF queue does.
Water aligned to the programs that fund it.
A drinking, sewer, or stormwater project also creates jobs, protects public health, and restores rivers. We connect each project to the economic development, health, and environmental funding that follows those goals.
Alongside your team, not around it.
We collaborate with your in-house staff on the capital plan and the rate case, help you execute, and leave your engineers and financial advisors in place.
A capability your team keeps.
When the work is done, your people know how to find and combine funding for the next project on the plan.
Proven where it counts
90%
Grant Win Rate
$20M
Corporate Replenishment Pipeline
10+
Years in service
Trusted across the sector
AWWA M29 Co-Author
Water Utility Capital Financing Manual of Practice
Board Member
Pacific Institute
Global Managers of the CEO Water Mandate and the Water Resilience Coalition
SFPUC Citizen's Advisory Committee
Environmental Justice for water, sewer, and power
