Menu
Filter by:
Read about drinking water in the New York City area
Read about drinking water in the Philadelphia area
The Philadelphia Water Department does not recommend swimming in any river or creek in Philadelphia.
For years conservationists grew increasingly concerned that inflexible management of reservoirs in the Delaware River Basin was damaging the basin’s upstream ecology—read more from Columbia University’s Climate School and Water Center.
Learn About Climate Change Impacts in the Delaware River Basin
When rain falls and snow melts in parts of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware, the water trickles through the ground into streams eventually entering the Delaware River, which flows 330 miles
The Delaware Valley Early Warning System (EWS) provides alerts to water systems about discharges into rivers and streams, or changes in surface source water quality and flow, in the Schuylkill and lower Delaware River watersheds.
Do you have a white paper, infographic, report, policy paper, or resource to share? We encourage members to submit new resources that we can share on our website.