Green City Clean Waters

Philadelphia Water’s Rain Check program is a free, easy way to help prevent flooding in your home and neighborhood. What is the Rain Check program? Philadelphia Water Rain Check is a program that helps Philadelphia residents reduce their water bills...

The Philadelphia Water Department invites you to the Green City, Clean Waters ‘A Decade in the Community’ celebration on Thursday, October 21 from 4 – 7pm outside the Crane Arts Building and in the street along the 1400 Block of...

Philadelphia Water’s program to promote green stormwater infrastructure has been in progress for a decade. One Philadelphia program dedicated to water is celebrating a decade. Philadelphia Water Department’s Green City, Clean Waters is a plan to reduce combined sewer overflows....

The latest water news, including how PWD nets $100 million for a facility to clean Delaware River water As the Philadelphia Water Department’s Green City, Clean Waters program turns 10 this June, it appears the initiative received an early anniversary...

Six city schools lead the list of green infrastructure to arrive in continued efforts to protect Philly’s waterways. The Philadelphia Water Department announced over $5 million in stormwater grant funding (as part of its Green City, Clean Waters initiative) to...

The numbers are impressive.  In a year in which nearly every city-run agency felt both the physical and financial strain caused the COVID-19 pandemic, 2020 was a year in which the Philadelphia Water Department thrived.  Recently, PWD commissioner Randy E....

As climate change brings hotter and wetter weather to Philly, it can strain our waterways due to our archaic systems. Here’s why. Like many major cities across the country, Philly uses a Combined Sewage System to prevent localized flooding in...

If you couldn’t make it to the Green Economy Tour and Roundtable event last Tuesday, no worries. We’re here to recap everything we learned from our visits to the Hestonville Rain Garden and Overbrook Nature Center, and even share some...

Our three SustainPHL nominees for Sustainability Mentor of the Year are broadening the reach of sustainability education to both traditional and non-traditional students across the city. From helping underserved communities better understand and benefit from renewable energy solutions to creating...