Love Morris Park @ Home with a New Water-Centered Storymap: In celebration of LYP, we explore history and green infrastructure.
May 15, 2020 | Daniel Schupsky
While our walking history/green infrastructure tour is on pause, our online storymap is a great way to participate safely during Love Your Park Week.
Read More →Earth Day @ 50: 5 Ways We Contribute: Clean water and waterways don’t come without a healthy planet.
April 22, 2020 | Brian Rademaekers
Five ways the Philadelphia Water Department works to further the ideals that embody Earth Day.
Read More →Safe Things to Do During COVID-19: Watershed Steward Certification!: Penn State Master Watershed Steward program is shifting 2020 training to Zoom.
March 25, 2020 | Grace Maiorano
Starting April 2nd, the Penn State Master Watershed Steward program is shifting its education and training to an online platform.
Read More →Two ‘green’ businesses clinch top PWD prizes: Stormwater Pioneer Award Winners honored for maintenance of commercial property GSI.
March 11, 2020 | Public Affairs
This PWD award showcases innovation, excellence, and the ability to overcome technical challenges, recognizing private property owners for outstanding stormwater management projects.
Read More →San Juan Explores Philly’s Green Solutions: Our GSI experts met with San Juan’s environmental champions.
February 27, 2020 | Grace Maiorano
Through a learning exchange program hosted by The Nature Conservancy, our Deputy Commissioner of Planning & Environmental Services and Public Engagement Team Manager, recently met with representatives from the San Juan-based Proyecto ENLACE del Caño Martín Peña.
Read More →New ‘Sewer U’ Serves Infrastructure Workers: Gold LEED-Certified Site Trains Increasingly Gender-Diverse City Workforce for Critical Infrastructure Jobs
May 16, 2019 | Public Affairs
A sort of campus that serves as a state-of-the-art training and operations hub for the City’s sewer infrastructure workforce, the project cost approximately $17 million to build.
Read More →Historic Germantown’s Community-Powered Green Upgrade Wins 2018 ‘Pioneers’ Award
May 22, 2018 | Public Affairs
Historic Germantown earns the 2018 Stormwater Pioneers award for their new rain garden, redesigned courtyard space, and commitment to the community and health of our waterways.
Read More →Sustainability First Friday in Fishtown: Celebrate 5 Years of Cleaner Water Through Greener Neighborhoods
May 26, 2016 | Brian Rademaekers
Philadelphia Water will be celebrating a major Green City, Clean Waters achievement—meeting the program’s five-year pollution-reduction targets—at Fishtown’s Lutheran Settlement House (LSH) during the neighborhood’s Sustainability First Friday gathering on June 3 from 5 to 7 p.m.
Read More →‘Invisible Flying Rivers’: How Trees Help Manage Stormwater: It’s a pretty abstract concept, but Antonio Nobre, one of Brazil’s leading climate scientists, described the impact of e
November 30, 2015 | Brian Rademaekers
It’s a pretty abstract concept, but Antonio Nobre, one of Brazil’s leading climate scientists, described the impact of evapotranspiration in a very cool way while talking to NPR’s Lourdes Garcia-Navarro in early November:
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