The Philadelphia Water Department strives for sustainable utility operations to ensure that we are capable of meeting the social, economic and environmental demands of a 21st Century water utility.
In addition to protecting Philadelphia’s waterways with Water Pollution Control Plants and other infrastructure, the Philadelphia Water Department (PWD) defends our rivers from threats and pollution sources locally and beyond the City limits to ensure safe, high-quality drinking water and healthy local waterways.
Every step involved in providing our 1.6 million customers with the core services they rely on 24/7 requires the use of energy. The core services we provide include drinking water collection, treatment and delivery and the collection and treatment of wastewater and stormwater. On average, we use about 1.7 trillion British thermal units (BTUs) of […]