Orlando urges residents to conserve water because of surge in hospitalizations
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Re: Orlando urges residents to conserve water because of surge in hospitalizations
#2They don't use chlorine?
Re: Orlando urges residents to conserve water because of surge in hospitalizations
#3Can’t you bring in liquid oxygen from other areas of the country by truck?
Re: Orlando urges residents to conserve water because of surge in hospitalizations
#4They don't use chlorine?
From the article:
> the city’s water regulator uses liquid oxygen as part of its process for removing foul-smelling hydrogen sulfide from water pumped in from the Lower Floridan Aquifer.
Re: Orlando urges residents to conserve water because of surge in hospitalizations
#5They don't use chlorine?
From the article: > the city’s water regulator uses liquid oxygen as part of its process for removing foul-smelling hydrogen sulfide from water pumped in from the Lower Floridan Aquifer.
I live here and have a well, the aquifer water is pretty much rotten eggs.
Re: Orlando urges residents to conserve water because of surge in hospitalizations
#6Can’t you bring in liquid oxygen from other areas of the country by truck?
Requires people licensed to transport liquid oxygen as well as tanker trucks designed for it; with so much unplanned for demand, it's hard to balance the needs of medical and industrial oxygen quickly.
Re: Orlando urges residents to conserve water because of surge in hospitalizations
#7Can’t you bring in liquid oxygen from other areas of the country by truck?
Better yet, couldn’t you use electricity to break up some water molecules, so sulfide oxidation happens in situ? As an extra bonus, hydrogen fuel.
Re: Orlando urges residents to conserve water because of surge in hospitalizations
#8Re: Orlando urges residents to conserve water because of surge in hospitalizations
#9Florida has a higher age 65+ Vaccination rate than California or New York:
https://www.mayoclinic.org/coronavirus-covid-19/vaccine-trac...
We're rehashing all of the same arguments from 2020. The Southern States peak earlier in the year for respiratory viruses due to latitude:
So what's happening in the South now is a preview of what will happen in the Northern States, perhaps even worse since the vaccines will further drop in effectiveness due to time duration (hence the need for 'boosters').
Re: Orlando urges residents to conserve water because of surge in hospitalizations
#10It sounds like if people do not cut back, then they will do the reasonable thing and prioritize sending oxygen to the hospitals, accepting that this means people's tap water will start smelling sulfurous [EDIT: and maybe need boiling before drinking]
> To reduce demand for liquid oxygen, OUC is asking water customers to immediately limit irrigating their lawns and landscapes. If OUC’s liquid oxygen supplies continue to be depleted and water usage isn’t reduced, water quality may be impacted. -- https://www.ouc.com/water-info