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By Julia Reischel on Friday, Nov. 19, 2010 - 9:02 pm
A rendering of the DEP's plans for a three-mile bypass to the Delaware Aqueduct. Image provided by NYC DEP.
Tonight, New York City Department of Environmental Protection commissioner Cas Holloway told a group of Wawarsing residents that their chronically-... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Oct. 21, 2010 - 2:46 pm
The first of 56 UV-irradiating steel-disinfection chambers being installed in the DEP's new ultraviolet Disinfection Facility in Westchester County. Photo via the DEP's Facebook page.
Beginning in 2012, all the water from the Catskills-Delaware watershed... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Oct. 21, 2010 - 9:59 am
In the upper elevations of the Catskills, the leaves are mostly fallen now. Dennis Schvejda got this shot of the Pepacton Reservoir a couple of weeks ago, with shreds of autumnal glory still clinging to its banks. Despite the 10/1 floods, the water was... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Sep. 16, 2010 - 4:09 pm
Is New York City's water kosher? That depends on your perspective -- after all, it is swimming with tiny, harmless shrimplike organisms called copepods.
Earlier this summer, an enterprising blogger added a common laboratory stain to New York City tap... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Aug. 27, 2010 - 12:49 pm
Ulster County Comptroller Eliot Auerbach, who blogs at the not-so-originally-named Ulster County Comptroller blog, sent up a flare of anger yesterday about this week's announcement that the DEP is buying another 1,323 acres upstate to protect is... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Jul. 12, 2010 - 4:52 pm
I don't know how I missed this last week, but New York City is now selling a line of "NYC water products." That's right: Water glasses, coasters, and carafts decorated with a slogan -- "Drink NYC Water" -- that celebrates the unique and special nature of... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jun. 23, 2010 - 10:27 am
On Tuesday, a panel of expert tasters convened in Chicago to crown North America's best-tasting tap water. The winner: Stevens Point, Wisconsin, whose 25,000 residents are thrilled that they beat New York City for the top spot.
Stevens Point's water... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jun. 2, 2010 - 2:30 pm
New York City's unfiltered drinking water may be the finest in the world, but it's still not a good idea to mix it with propylene glycol before giving it to schoolkids.
About 80 children at Public School 20, an elementary school in Flushing, Queens,... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Feb. 25, 2010 - 12:49 pm
The DEP issued a press release yesterday touting a new $5.2 million computer system that will allow the agency to do more advanced data modeling of the reservoirs. The goal: better water quality, and less flooding. (Hopefully the two go together.)
When... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Thursday, Feb. 25, 2010 - 9:47 am
The Hudson River advocacy organization is looking for a new executive director.
Below: A video from BigThink featuring departing Riverkeeper Alex Matthiessen talking about the New York City water supply.
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