Green City, Clean Waters
By implementing green stormwater infrastructure projects, such as rain gardens and stormwater planters, the City can reduce water pollution impacts while improving our essential natural resources and making our neighborhoods more beautiful.
Watershed Protection
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.
Ecological Restoration
Historic development practices have altered natural hydrologic patterns and ecosystems. We are now “working with nature” and design projects that restore some of these processes to a more natural state.
Resource Recovery and Energy Production
The Philadelphia Water Department is generating and conserving energy to reduce our reliance on non renewable resources, and to diversify the City’s bank of available energy sources.
Climate Change Adaptation
PWD is working to better understand the impacts climate change will have on Philadelphia’s water infrastructure and how it needs to invest and plan for a future that looks different than the past.