Baxter Water Treatment Plant. The plant filters water from the Delaware River, to send to the taps of more than half the residents of Philadelphia. The facility is named after Sam Baxter, the city’s ...

Marshland on the shore of the Delaware River south of the Samuel S. Baxter Water Treatment Plant in Philadelphia. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY) This story is part of the WHYY News Climate Desk, bringing you ...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently declared that only 74 percent of Earth’s population has access to clean water ... each Philadelphia treatment plant is able ...

North Philadelphia and Northeast Philadelphia. The city's two other water treatment plants take water from the Schuylkill River and weren't affected by the chemical spill. On the other side of the ...

March 29 (UPI) --Philadelphia officials declared the city's water cleared to drink Tuesday night after testing at one of its drinking water treatment plants showed it was not affected by a ...

Earlier on Sunday, Philadelphia's water department said residents who receive water from the city's Baxter drinking water treatment plant might want to use bottled water "out of an abundance of ...

“In fact, I think as the hours and days go by, it’s very likely it will not enter the Philadelphia water system,” he said. U.S. Coast Guard tests of Delaware River water and city tests of water in the ...