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Penn group wins EPA Campus RainWorks Challenge
A sketch of adults and children looking over a lush rain garden

Penn group wins EPA Campus RainWorks Challenge

The student-led project will reimagine the campus of West Philadelphia’s Andrew Hamilton School, including vegetable gardens, a food forest, and other green stormwater-management tools.

Katherine Unger Baillie

Energy and water autonomy for off-grid waterfront floating structures
Rendering of a floating waterfront prototype

A waterfront floating laboratory prototype. (Image: Thread collective + Oasis Design Lab)

Energy and water autonomy for off-grid waterfront floating structures

The Thermal Architecture Lab at the Weitzman School is part of a collaboration to develop energy and water autonomous systems for off-grid floating structures that are designed to adapt to rising waters.

From The Water Center at Penn

What would it take to make the Delaware ‘swimmable’?
delaware river with ben franklin bridge in background

What would it take to make the Delaware ‘swimmable’?

With funding from the William Penn Foundation, the Water Center at Penn is investigating questions of water quality, access, and equity.

Katherine Unger Baillie

Design travels to South Carolina to plan more protective urban coastlines
Aerial view of a South Carolina coastal municipality map diagramed for design purposes

Aerial view of Imagine the Wall, Charleston, a proposal for the South Carolina coastal city. (Image: Weitzman School)

Design travels to South Carolina to plan more protective urban coastlines

A Weitzman School team is working with the city of Charleston on an urban seawall plan that combines natural elements with structural systems that respond to the local conditions of the city’s shoreline.

From the Weitzman School of Design

How to make progress for Pittsburgh’s Three Rivers
Evening view of Pittsburgh skyline along one of its rivers

How to make progress for Pittsburgh’s Three Rivers

The Water Center at Penn has completed the first phase of a high-level study of the challenges and opportunities for water resource management in Pittsburgh’s Three Rivers Region.

Penn Today Staff

How to make a better water filter? Turn it inside out
a line of cylinders with used water filters on a bench outside

How to make a better water filter? Turn it inside out

Penn engineers describe a novel approach for making antimicrobial nanoscale water filters while demonstrating new approaches that can be used to develop a broad range of materials.

Erica K. Brockmeier

Relieving water scarcity, one home at a time
Four smiling students posing by a blue container with a level on top of it

Members of the Penn chapter of nonprofit organization Isla Urbana, including (from left) Samira Mehta, Wanqi Fang, Pallavi Menon, and Imañia Powers, helped to install rainwater harvesting and filtration systems in Mexico City this summer. (Photo: Lucia Palmarini)

Relieving water scarcity, one home at a time

Due to a rapidly depleting underground aquifer, many residents of Mexico City are left with little-to-no easily accessible clean water for hours or days at a time. This summer, members of the Penn chapter of Isla Urbana helped install rainwater harvesting and filtration systems to provide residents of the Mexican capital with clean water year-round.

Gina Vitale