Green City, Clean Waters Sites That Took Root in 2019: Looking at some of our favorite projects from the program’s eighth year
February 14, 2020
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Grace Maiorano
Our Green City, Clean Waters program celebrates nine years in June. Here are some highlights from 2019.
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2019 In Review: Tap Gets Its Cool Back: Tap regained sustainable appeal, while local efforts sought to build trust and bust myths.
January 2, 2020
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Brian Rademaekers
Tap water chic flooded the zeitgeist amid global outcry over an ever-growing tide of plastic litter filling our parks, streets, rivers, and oceans. Locally, we took on skeptics in city where 40 percent say they drink bottled water at home.
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2019 In Review: A Year of Change, Progress: New leadership and big improvements marked 2019.
December 30, 2019
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Brian Rademaekers
It was a momentous year for the Philadelphia Water Department. See how 2019 was a year defined by change and progress.
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Flashback Friday: Sludge Lagoons and the Christmas Bird Count: Wastewater plants are birding hot spots.
December 27, 2019
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Brian Rademaekers
Today’s Flashback Friday post takes a quick trip back to the summer, but also links to a much older tradition: we’re in the final week of the 120th #ChristmasBirdCount!
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Flashback Friday … the 13th!: We get creepy with a loathed sewer creature
December 13, 2019
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Adam Levine, PWD Historian
Sewer crawlers face many challenges in their work, including rodent nests.
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Top Five Reasons to Soak It Up with PWD: Could your local group benefit from green infrastructure minigrants?
December 12, 2019
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Dan Schupsky
We’re looking for new organizations to join our small but mighty Soak It Up Adoption roster, ideally in January 2020.
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The Art of Not Littering: Eye-catching ’Community Cans’ aim for trash-free waterways
December 11, 2019
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Morgan Thomas, Drexel Co-Op
Artists and students in two neighborhoods partnered to make cans that will help keep litter out of local waterways.
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Be Thankful You Don’t Live in Pre-Flush Philly: World Toilet Day and our messy journey to sanitation
November 22, 2019
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Public Affairs
Historian Adam Levine helps us flush out some interesting insights about the relationship between toilets and our evolution toward a metropolis that once topped 2 million poop-making people.
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Philly Climate Change Efforts Get Boost from Global Summit: Engineer leading our climate efforts represented Phila. in Copenhagen
November 21, 2019
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Public Affairs
Like the other City experts representing Philadelphia in Copenhagen, PWD Engineer Julia Rockwell was there because she and her peers are doing crucial work on climate change.
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Have We Had ‘A Day Without Water’?: As long as we’ve had infrastructure, rivers have provided.
October 31, 2019
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Adam Levine, PWD Historian
We plumbed the past to see if there have been dry days in the Philly’s past.
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