The Delaware River, which boarders a large portion of Bucks County, is now seeing its waters benefit people in an out of the area. Meg McGuire wrote about the basin for the Delaware Currents.

The population served by the Delaware River Basin has increased to 14.2 million people in 2020 compared to 13.6 million in 2016, according to a presentation by Sara Sayed at the Delaware River Basin Commission’s Water Management Advisory Committee.

The latest number is based on population figures from the 2020 census.

Pennsylvania is unsurprisingly the largest user of Delaware River water as it has the largest land mass in the watershed. Around 5.8 million people in the Keystone State are served by the watershed.

Philadelphia is the largest city in the watershed, and it takes all its water from the Delaware River Basin. Some of it is supplied by the Delaware River itself and some of it comes from the Schuylkill River.

Meanwhile, around 2 million people are served in New Jersey and about 774,000 people in Delaware use Delaware River water.

Read more about the Delaware River Basin in the Delaware Currents.

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