The Pittsburgh Water & Sewer Authority ( PWSA ), founded in 1984 , was born to manage a $ 200 million capital improvement program intended to overhaul the city ’ s aging water treatment and distribution infrastructure . Not only was some the equipment getting run down , but more strict water quality requirements mandated by both the state and federal governments necessitated an intelligent restructuring of a system that , at the time , supplied water to tens of thousands .

Today , that system , upgraded several times over , supplies fresh water to more than 86,000 people throughout the city of Pittsburgh . But PWSA ’ s story isn ’ t over yet — the organization is striving to improve every day with a range of changes that will move the city of Pittsburgh into a greener future while improving the operational efficiency at PWSA itself .

80 August 2015