Smarter Financial Planning for Stronger Communities

At the heart of every local government is a budget. For water and wastewater utilities, that budget is often under pressure from aging infrastructure, regulatory requirements, rising construction costs, debt obligations, and the need to keep rates affordable for the community.

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Swiftwater Solutions helps municipalities move from reactive decision-making to proactive financial planning. Our team combines engineering insight, utility finance experience, and practical funding strategy to help communities understand what their systems need, what they can afford, and how to plan for long-term sustainability.

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AquaVista: Turning Utility Data into Smart Decisions.

Swiftwater Solutions has developed AquaVista, our proprietary financial planning and rate modeling platform built specifically for municipal water and wastewater utilities.

AquaVista helps communities evaluate:

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• Financial trends and revenue performance

• Operating budgets and expense projections

• Water and wastewater rate scenarios

• Capital improvement planning needs

• Debt capacity and funding strategies

• Long-term affordability and sustainability

 

Unlike static spreadsheets, AquaVista is designed as a dynamic planning tool that allows communities to understand how today’s decisions affect tomorrow’s financial position. The platform brings together utility data, budget information, rate assumptions, capital planning, and forecasting into one integrated framework.

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AquaVista and its underlying financial methodologies are proprietary to Swiftwater Solutions. The platform is supported by specialized data-processing tools and advanced retrieval-based architecture developed in collaboration with Troon, allowing SWS to organize, analyze, and translate complex utility information into clear, defensible planning insights.

 

Services Supported by AquaVista

Through AquaVista and our hands-on consulting approach, SWS supports communities with:

• Strategic utility planning

• Rate and fee studies

• Financial and debt planning

• Capital improvement planning

• Grant and funding strategy

• Budgeting and forecasting

• Organizational and operational optimization

 

Proven Results

Understanding a community’s needs often starts with its finances. Swiftwater Solutions specializes in helping communities identify affordable, practical solutions from both an engineering and financial perspective.

Recent successes include:

• Town of Buena Vista — secured $3.7M in grants and principal loan forgiveness

• Town of Eckley — secured $1.85M in grants and loan forgiveness

• Trail West Homeowners Association — secured a $3.5M loan at 0.5% interest for a nongovernmental entity