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This Sunday, Run for Healthy Urban Streams

April 13, 2016  |  Brian Rademaekers

Are you a runner/hiker who cares about the health of our urban parks and waterways?
Sign up now for the Healthy Trails 5K, a Philadelphia Water-sponsored event that’s helping to raise funds for the TTF Watershed Partnership, one of our key community partners.

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Photos: Green City, Clean Waters Gets Cheers at Smith Celebration

December 28, 2015  |  SClarkJr

You might think it’d be hard for green stormwater infrastructure to get much attention when you have a star NFL player (Connor Barwin) talking about fun things like a completely renovated recreation center and the new athletic fields and basketball courts coming to Smith Playground in South Philadelphia.

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Saturday: See GSI Being Made and Contribute to Art in Hestonville

November 19, 2015  |  Brian Rademaekers

This Saturday, volunteers will join Mural Arts, Philadelphia Water and members of the Hestonville neighborhood in West Philadelphia for a community paint day that will help artists Eurhi Jones and Michael Reali complete a new mural titled “Your Hands Shimmering on the Legs of Rain.”

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Hooked: Great Turnout for Philly Fun Fishing Fest

September 15, 2015  |  Brian Rademaekers

A few clouds and some high water weren’t enough to keep people from enjoying some fine Schuylkill River fishing on Saturday, and the Philly Fun Fishing Fest saw one of its biggest crowds ever during the 11th annual event.

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A Banner Summer for the Schuylkill River

September 4, 2015  |  Brian Rademaekers

On Wednesday, Philadelphia Water joined officials and groups from across the region on the river’s banks to celebrate the Schuylkill River Trail (SRT) being named America’s “Best Urban Trail” by USA Today. The now 65-mile pathway connecting Philadelphia and the upper reaches of the river won the top honor in an online voting campaign held earlier in the summer, and the designation has helped bring

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Fish Fest: Inspiring Life-Long Watershed Stewards

August 28, 2015  |  Brian Rademaekers

There’s something about fishing—the wonder, perhaps, that you inevitably experience when you cast your line into the water and hope that something will appear, alive and fighting, on the other end—that makes it an especially potent way of getting people hooked on “watershed stewardship.”

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UPDATE: Almost 10K Pounds of Trash Removed; Can You Help Too?

August 24, 2015  |  Brian Rademaekers

Philadelphia Water is sponsoring a big clean up on the Delaware River with Living Lands and Waters and the Partnership for the Delaware Estuary, and we’re still looking for some fresh volunteers out on the water. In the first few clean up days, members of the community who care about the health of the Delaware have already collected nearly 10,000 pounds of trash!

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