In this interview series, Heather Himmelberger, Director of the Southwest EFC shares the history, challenges, achievements, and lessons learned in the organization’s 15 years (as of interview time) of asset management program implementation.
In this video, Ross Waugh explains that he is conducting this interview about Heather Himmelberger, Director of the Southwest Environmental Finance Centre, the work they are doing, the successes they have achieved, and the challenges they are facing.
He said that the Inframanage.com audience, in the USA and worldwide, will benefit from the asset management learning that the SWEFC has garnered in the last two decades of operation.
Heather shares about the EFC network and its programs, particularly its work reaching out to small communities, local governments, states, and federal governments.
She mentioned that they provide assistance in various ways to help with environmental infrastructure and regulatory challenges, looking at ways these communities confront the challenges they face.
Watch and know Heather’s responses to the following questions or topics that Ross asked her about:
- Is the EFC network working only on water and wastewater or working on other assets as well?
- What are the communities they are working with?
- Know the challenges that these communities are facing.
This video introduces the SWEFC topics you will watch and learn in this 10-video series.
[…] She also explains the structures that facilitate the effective delivery of the asset management program. […]