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  2. Philadelphia Water Department - Wikipedia

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    phila.gov /water. The Philadelphia Water Department is the public water utility for the City of Philadelphia. PWD provides integrated potable water, wastewater, and stormwater services for Philadelphia and some communities in Bucks, Delaware and Montgomery counties. [4] PWD is a municipal agency of the City of Philadelphia, and is seated in ...

  3. Philadelphia - Wikipedia

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    Website. www.phila.gov. Philadelphia, colloquially referred to as Philly, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania [11] and the sixth-most populous city in the United States, with a population of 1,603,797 in the 2020 census. The city is the urban core of the larger Delaware Valley, also known as the Philadelphia metropolitan ...

  4. History of Philadelphia - Wikipedia

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    History of Philadelphia. A 1752 map of Philadelphia. The city of Philadelphia was founded and incorporated in 1682 by William Penn in the English Crown Province of Pennsylvania between the Delaware and Schuylkill rivers. Before then, the area was inhabited by the Lenape people. Philadelphia quickly grew into an important colonial city and ...

  5. Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania - Wikipedia

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    2nd, 3rd, 5th. Website. www.phila.gov. Philadelphia County is the most populous of the 67 counties of Pennsylvania and the 24th-most populous county in the nation. As of the 2020 census, the county had a population of 1,603,797. [1] Its county seat is Philadelphia, the nation's sixth-largest city. The county is part of the Southeast ...

  6. Drinking fountains in Philadelphia - Wikipedia

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    Public drinking fountains in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, have been built and used since the 19th century. Various reform-minded organizations in the city supported public drinking fountains as street furniture for different but overlapping reasons. One was the general promotion of public health, in an era of poor water and ...

  7. Cherelle Parker - Wikipedia

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    Cherelle Lesley Parker (born September 9, 1972) [2] is an American politician who has served as the 100th Mayor of Philadelphia since 2024. She is the first woman to hold the office. [3][4] Parker served in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from 2005 to 2015, representing the 200th district in Northwest Philadelphia.

  8. Water conservation - Wikipedia

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    Water conservation aims to sustainably manage the natural resource of fresh water, protect the hydrosphere, and meet current and future human demand. Water conservation makes it possible to avoid water scarcity. It covers all the policies, strategies and activities to reach these aims. Population, household size and growth and affluence all ...

  9. Philadelphia Gas Works - Wikipedia

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    Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. , United States. Services. Natural Gas. Website. www.pgworks.com. Philadelphia Gas Works (PGW) is the United States ' largest municipally owned natural gas utility. [1] Construction was completed by engineer Samuel V. Merrick on January 22, 1838, [2] and operations continued from the 1800s to the present day. [3][4]