Topics Water Supply

Ghosts of Water in Fairmount Park, Part 1, with Adam Levine

History of Water in Roxborough: A talk by Adam Levine

Laboratory Alkalinity test, ca. 1943

Making It Safe to Drink: Water History Video 2

Rebirth of the Rivers: Water History Video 3

Repurposing Old Infrastructure: Water History Video 5

Sandy Run Watershed and the Holmesburg Water Works

Ghosts of Water in Fairmount Park, Part II, with Adam Levine

William Penn balks at drinking the "mixed drink" offered him: Schuylkill water, mixed with pollution from the upstream sources named. Editorial cartoon by Fred Morgan, Philadelphia Inquirer, April 6, 1899. One of a series of cartoons drawn by Morgan protesting the state of the city's drinking water and trying to encourage the passage of legislation authorizing the construction of a water filtration system.

Half a Century of Clean Water