Uncategorized - Manny Teodoro

The Slow Flow of Progress💻

Racial diversity in water leadership AI's idea of diverse water utility leaders. Creepy, I know. Long ignored, racial and ethnic diversity are now high priorities for the water sector.* Diversity is especially important in

And Water for All 🎦

Ramiro Berardo, Director ...And Water For All is an educational documentary about water affordability in Ohio. The film aims to amplify the voices of those who work toward providing clean, affordable water for all.

Water & Sewer Affordability in the United States 🎓

AWWA Water Science Manuel P. Teodoro The ability of low-income families to pay for basic water and sewer services is a subject of increasing concern. Large-scale assessments of affordability across large numbers of American

Boys Will Be Superintendents 🎓

School leadership as a gendered profession PDK: Phi Delta Kappan Robert Maranto, Kristen Carroll, Albert Cheng, and Manuel P. Teodoro Even though the teaching profession is dominated by women, men hold more superintendent positions.

Golden State Waterers 💻

A California surprise, Part I Drought porn Something unexpected happened when California ordered its utilities to save water: the state’s investor-owned private utilities out-conserved local governments. California’s long-term drought began as early as 2007,

Zombie Metrics 💻

This guy measures water affordability as (Avg bill ÷ MHI)<2.0% Terrible, horrible, no good, very bad measurement, part 4 My criticism of average bill ÷ Median Household Income (MHI) as a measure of household-level

Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Measurement 💻

This officer is not trying to measure statewide alcohol sales A feral howl on the conventional method of assessing household water affordability, part 1 Recently a colleague asked me how I first got interested

Cheeseburgers & water bills 💻

Why water utility service can be simultaneously underpriced and unaffordable Analysis of water and sewer affordability implies a concern that the prices of these critical services might be too high. At the same time,

Water affordability as poetry and prose 💻

Can declaring a human right to water help address affordability? Something extraordinary is unfolding in California. In 2012, to great fanfare, California governor Jerry Brown signed into law Assembly Bill 685, which amended the

Class, Race, Ethnicity, and Justice in Safe Drinking Water Act Compliance 🎓

Social Science Quarterly David Switzer & Manuel P. Teodoro See Full Article Objective Past research yields inconsistent evidence of disparities in environmental quality by socioeconomic status (SES), race, and/or ethnicity. Since the political significance

Infrastructure & the Art of the Possible 💻

The growing national attention to public infrastructure in the United States has been gratifying to those of us who have been working on the issue for a long time. Infrastructure has been a simmering

Drinking from the Talent Pool 🎓

A Resource Endowment Theory of Human Capital and Agency Performance PAR: Public Administration Review Manuel P. Teodoro & David Switzer This article advances a resource endowment theory of human capital and performance in government

Bureaucratic Ambition 📖

Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011 Careers, Motives, and the Innovative Administrator Teodoro explains the systems that foster or frustrate entrepreneurship among public executives. Through case studies and quantitative analysis of original data, he shows