Where does our tap water come from? Where does our water water go? Join the Fairmount Water Works Interpretive Center for a behind-the-scenes bus tour of the Philadelphia Water Department's drinking water system. Learn how it's connected to our rivers, including past and present-day infrastructure that brings us clean and safe drinking water every day. […]
The Fairmount Water Works is excited to be a part the Delaware River Festival! Enjoy a ride on the RiverLink Ferry between Philadelphia and Camden... Visit the Independence Seaport Museum... […]
Our River Days Program aims to honor and recognize the Lenni Lenape as the original shepherds of this region and provide community members with an opportunity to explore our watershed […]
Please join Sandy Sorlien and other contributors to celebrate the launch of Inland, a new book of photographs, maps, and essays about the historic Schuylkill Navigation system and its mostly-hidden ruins. Inland was published in […]
Thanks largely to investments and regulations stemming from the Clean Water Act of 1972, the Delaware and Schuylkill Rivers are now cleaner than they have been at any time in the past century. Philadelphia Water Department Historian Adam Levine will look at how a rising tide of pollution in the 19th and early 20th centuries affected […]
Help keep household hazardous waste out of our rivers and streams by scheduling a drop-off appointment at one of the City’s upcoming collection events on October 22 and November 5 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.! Learn more here.
This virtual tour will take virtual visitors behind the scenes at the City’s Southeast Water Pollution Control Plant to follow polluted wastewater step by step through the treatment plant until the cleaned wastewater is cleaner than the Delaware River itself and can be discharged safely to it. Philadelphia’s sewers and the City’s three water pollution […]
Don't forget to register for the 2023 Green Schools Conference in New Orleans February 27- March 1! This is the only national event to convene professionals involved in making #greenschools a reality. https://bit.ly/3G7edXE
Facilitated by the Fairmount Water Works Interpretive Center, in partnership with TU Delft, PortCityFutures, Philadelphia Water Department, Global Philadelphia, and the Alliance for Watershed Education, along with Schuylkill Banks, Schuylkill […]
