Duy trì nhận thức về phát triển công nghệ thông tin và hoạt động để dự đoán và hỗ trợ thông qua kịp thời cải tiến. Tính khả thi tài chính Hiểu chi phí vòng đời đầy đủ các tiện ích và thiết lập và duy trì một sự cân bằng hiệu quả giữa nợ dài hạn, giá trị tài sản, hoạt động và chi phí bảo trì, và các khoản thu điều hành. | A Primer for Water and Wastewater Utilities Page 5 Operational Optimization Ensures ongoing timely cost-effective reliable and sustainable performance improvements in all facets of its operations. Minimizes resource use loss and impacts from day-to-day operations. Maintains awareness of information and operational technology developments to anticipate and support timely adoption of improvements. Financial Viability Understands the full life-cycle cost of the utility and establishes and maintains an effective balance between long-term debt asset values operations and maintenance expenditures and operating revenues. Establishes predictable rates consistent with community expectations and acceptability adequate to recover costs provide for reserves maintain support from bond rating agencies and plan and invest for future needs. Infrastructure Stability Understands the condition of and costs associated with critical infrastructure assets. Maintains and enhances the condition of all assets over the long-term at the lowest possible life-cycle cost and acceptable risk consistent with customer community and regulator-supported service levels and consistent with anticipated growth and system reliability goals. Assures asset repair rehabilitation and replacement efforts are coordinated within the community to minimize disruptions and other negative consequences. Operational Resiliency Ensures utility leadership and staff work together to anticipate and avoid problems. Proactively identifies assesses establishes tolerance levels for and effectively manages a full range of business risks including legal regulatory financial environmental safety security and natural disaster-related in a proactive way consistent with industry trends and system reliability goals. Community Sustainability Is explicitly cognizant of and attentive to the impacts its decisions have on current and long-term future community and watershed health and welfare. Manages operations infrastructure and .
