Sam Moses and Catherine Clodfelter were quoted in Business Facilities about how corporations increasingly need to understand a site’s water availability and quality, on top of permitting rules and timelines, before a project can move forward in the site selection process.

Water and wastewater issues have come to the fore "for our traditional middle-of-the-road economic development project representing an industrial company that looks at sites," said Sam, who leads Parker Poe's Business Expansion + Location Solutions (BELS) Team. "If they need a lot of process water that is typically when that blinking red light goes up on the checklist and says we need to deal with that first."

Catherine, the co-leader of the firm's North Carolina Government & Municipalities Team, addressed how wastewater capacity can become a determining factor in a site’s viability.

"I would say it comes down to wastewater more than water in North Carolina," Catherine said. "Historically, North Carolina has been water-rich, and that is changing. We are in a drought, and so we are having to be more mindful. Wastewater discharges are the big player in North Carolina. We have some basins that already have some significant pressures."

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