Orlando asks residents to limit water consumption due to COVID-19 impacts

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Source: fox35orlando.com



Updated 24 mins ago

Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer and the Orlando Utilities Commission held a news conference asking residents to stop watering their lawns and washing their cars for at least a week.

ORLANDO, Fla. - The City of Orlando is asking residents to reduce water consumption due to COVID-19.

Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer and the Orlando Utilities Commission (OUC) held a news conference asking residents to stop watering their lawns and washing their cars for at least a week.


Mayor Dyer said Friday that water usage needed to be cut back because of the recent surge of COVID-19 hospitalizations.

OUC treats the city's water with liquid oxygen and supplies that ordinarily go toward water treatment have been diverted to hospitals for patients suffering from the virus. ........................

Read more: https://www.fox35orlando.com/news/ouc-wants-residents-to-limit-water-consumption-due-to-covid-19-impacts

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umm. folks who shrug at the increased cases of covid in Florida are having a rude awakening in Orlando

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[twodogsbarking]

1. Clean car or someone lives.

Let me get back to you on this.

[BumRushDaShow]

2. Wow

This is the first I have heard of a municipal water company using that technique but obviously it is done by some. Basically make ozone to do water treatment - https://www.jstor.org/stable/25038065

Something seems funky about this though because I would think that the O2 being used for inhalants is USP-grade and whatever might be used for water-treatment, would be more a reagent grade. It almost sounds like the tank gas suppliers are having problems with supply in general (like you hear in other countries) so it sounds like they may need to divert and purify reagent grade to be able to offer more medical/hospital grade O2...

[ancianita]

4. Interesting. Thanks for the jstor link.

[marble falls]

3. Good job, DeSantis! When does FEMA step into your third world miasma?

[ck4829]

5. K&R