Nineteen municipalities/utilities attended the COVID-19 Strategic Sharing Group meeting on May 8. The participants shared utility updates on changing trends in water demand and financial impacts resulting from the COVID-19 epidemic and examined potential approaches to mitigate and adapt to these challenges. Guest expert Michael Fenn, senior advisor at Strategy Corp, provided a presentation on current and project financial trends and challenges as municipalities/utilities respond to COVID-19.

A meeting summary is now available in the documents library (click on the “COVID-19 Response” folder under “Strategic Sharing Groups”) or can be downloaded below.

CWN is hosting the next Strategic Sharing Group meeting on Friday, May 22 at 1:00 pm EDT. If there are specific questions or topics that you’d like to add to the agenda or insights to share, please contact Sandra Cooke at [email protected].