The City of Akron Water Supply Division is responsible for treating approximately 35 million gallons a day (MGD) of surface water from the Upper Cuyahoga River via three impounding reservoirs. The primary reservoir, Lake Rockwell, located in Franklin Township; Portage County, Ohio is supplemented by Wendell R. Ladue Reservoir and East Branch Reservoir. Total storage capacity of the three reservoirs is over 10 billion gallons.

The Akron Water Treatment Facility provides potable water to the City of Akron and all or parts of the cities of Tallmadge, Stow, Fairlawn, Cuyahoga Falls, Twinsburg, Hudson, and Mogadore; and Bath, Boston, Copley, Coventry, Springfield, and Twinsburg Townships. Akron serves approximately 90,000 customer accounts with an estimated 300,000 service population.