Random Philadelphia Water info

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The other day the City of Philadelphia inadvertantly disclosed a very interesting fact. While reassuring the press that they were well prepared for Y2K someone asked about the impact of loss of power on water supplies (the questioner wanted to know about backup power supply for water purification/distribution.) Turns out that A.) there is no back power supply but B.)not to worry because the system has a gravity capacity of 3 (THREE) days! They said it in a very nonchalant, everybody knows this kind of way. It rather shocked me. I would have said a couple weeks if I had had to guess. So if the Grids do go down, the City will empty by the end of the first week! No way to survive without water. This changes my own time schedule in the event of problems. If power is down for 24 hours, I'm on my way to the deep countryside.

-- RD. ->H (drherr@erols.com), March 18, 1999

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That's some serious lack of foresight RD! Now, if you had said DC, I would not have been surprised. I bet DC doesn't have 6 hours worth of water.

-- Puddintame (dit@dot.com), March 18, 1999.

Oh, yes DC does. Look at the potential sources. You have the Reflecting Pool, The Potomac, the melting ice (cause there's no fridge). Oh, yeah. That yellow water running down the curbs (from the politicians that just realized their constituancy will be looking for them.)

-- Lobo (Hiding@woods.com), March 19, 1999.

Oh, yes DC does. Look at the potential sources. You have the Reflecting Pool, The Potomac, the melting ice (cause there's no fridge). Oh, yeah. That yellow water running down the curbs (from the politicians that just realized their constituancy will be looking for them.) Does need to be filtered before consumption. (Kinda like the media news).

-- Lobo (Hiding@woods.com), March 19, 1999.

This is enough impetus for anyone to explore the need for some form of water purification...not to mention the increased risk of the spread of disease via water due to breakdowns in municipal water systems and sanitation.

We have a thread going -- "Best Water Filter?" Check it out and add your .02 (two cents) worth.

-- Sara Nealy (keithn@ptd.net), March 19, 1999.


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