Water as emergency prep

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Water Utilities

Drought can result in significant operational impacts to water utilities, including a loss of water supply and poor source water quality. Building drought resilience for water utilities means increasing their ability to respond to water supply threats, withstand impacts from drought, and quickly...

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What the Delaware River ‘salt line’ is, and why we should care where it is​

Among all the things that Philadelphians love about the Jersey Shore, the taste of the Atlantic Ocean is not one of them.

Fortunately, the Philadelphia Water Department assures that it’s highly unlikely that its customers ever would have saltwater running through their taps. But in recent weeks the so-called salt line — the boundary between oceanic and freshwater — along the Delaware River has spiked radically northward, the result of an astonishingly dry three months.

As of Monday, the salt line had advanced to a location near Philadelphia International Airport, about 20 miles north of average for this time of year, and about 20 miles south of the Baxter water treatment plant in Torresdale, a source of drinking water for about 60% of the city.

Delaware River water levels at 60% as salt front increases amid drought
The rains forecast for Wednesday night and Thursday morning throughout the Philly region and in upstate Pennsylvania and northern New Jersey should have at least a mild flushing effect, said David Ondrejik, meteorologist and chief hydrologist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Middle Atlantic River Forecast Center, which monitors conditions in the Delaware and Susquehanna Basins.

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The story of how two Beverly Hills farmers privatized water in California

With Pistachio Wars finally out and streaming, I was nostalgically looking through some of my old work on the privatization of water and I came across this: a story I did back in 2009 for a defunct online news magazine called Alternet that signaled my intense interest in California’s...

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**I was at Sam's Club in NE Philly early yesterday morning and saw a lot of peeps with carts loaded out with water. Now I know why.

Sleeping on cots, 24/7 shifts, and double time: How Philly is keeping water clean during the DC 33 strike​

More than 100 Philadelphia Water Department supervisors have been working 24/7 shifts at the city’s six water and wastewater treatment facilities since last Tuesday, as the union representing many staffers who manage the city’s drinking water supply remains on strike.

For the last week, Mayor Cherelle L. Parker has been at loggerheads with District Council 33 of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees as she pushes for a “fiscally responsible” contract with the lowest-paid municipal workers’ union.

But as the picket lines carry into a second week, the Parker administration has relied on higher-paid managers to fill essential jobs at the city’s water facilities, paying them more handsomely than their DC 33 counterparts.

PWD managers received training to take over the city’s treatment and wastewater plants in the event of a disaster situation — or, in this case, the first major work stoppage in nearly four decades.

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