{"id":188526,"date":"2026-05-10T09:09:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T09:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/188526\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T09:09:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T09:09:18","slug":"erie-water-works-hosts-inaugural-water-festival-local-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/188526\/","title":{"rendered":"Erie Water Works Hosts Inaugural Water Festival | Local News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Drinking Water Week wrapped up on Saturday with a community event focused on the importance of clean and safe drinking water.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"water.png\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>Erie Water Works hosted its first-ever Drinking Water Festival and facility tours at one of its treatment plants on Sommerheim Drive in Millcreek.<\/p>\n<p>Visitors had the chance to learn how water is cleaned and treated, as well as how it is distributed throughout the region.<\/p>\n<p>The event also featured games, crafts and family-friendly activities designed to promote water education and conservation.<\/p>\n<p>The event comes as Erie Water Works released its 2025 Water Quality Report, which highlights the continued safety of the region\u2019s drinking water supply.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, the water system continues to meet both federal and state standards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Drinking Water Week wrapped up on Saturday with a community event focused on the importance of clean and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188527,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[18346,80504,136,138,137,2218,31623,84066,80505,84065,34478],"class_list":["post-188526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-clean-water","tag-drinking-water-week","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-erie-water-works","tag-water-conservation","tag-water-education","tag-water-festival","tag-water-quality-report","tag-water-treatment-plant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}