New York – New York’s mayor urged residents to take shorter showers, fix leaky faucets and conserve water more often, issuing a drought warning Saturday after a not-so-dry October. not only in the city but across much of the US.
The drought warning is the first of three levels of water conservation guidelines, and Mayor Eric Adams announced it in a social media video as a measure to try to avoid a more severe shortage in the city’s most populous city. in America.
“Mother Nature is in charge, so we have to make sure we adapt,” said Adams, a Democrat.
He asked all municipal bodies to prepare for the implementation of their water conservation plans. He asked the public to do their part, for example by turning off faucets while brushing their teeth and sweeping sidewalks instead of putting them down.
The mayor urged residents to report open hydrants and other leaks in the streets. The proposal comes days after the city fixed a leaky hydrant in Brooklyn that was feeding a pond of floating sidewall goldfish.
Just 0.02 centimeters (0.01 inches) of rain fell last month in Central Park, where October typically brings about 11.2 centimeters (4.4 inches), National Weather Service records show. to show City Environment Protection Department Commissioner Rohit Aggarwala said this is the driest October in more than 150 years of records.
Adding to the water shortage, the city is repairing a large aqueduct that carries water from the Catskill region, leaving residents more dependent on reservoirs in the city’s suburbs . That area received 2 centimeters (0.1 inch) of rain last month, about a fifth of the October average, the mayor’s office said in a statement Saturday.
New York City uses an average of 1.1 billion gallons (4.2 billion liters) of water per day. That’s about 35% lower than the peak in 1979. The city attributes the decline to factors such as improvements in leak detection.
Last month, almost half of the country was in severe drought, meaning rapid drying due to a combination of low rainfall and extremely high temperatures. The Northeast ended the month with an unusually – one might even say unusually – warm Halloween, with temperatures reaching 28 degrees Celsius (80 degrees Fahrenheit) from New York to Maine.
Experts attributed the sudden drought to a weather pattern that prevented moisture from moving north from the Gulf of Mexico.
Dry weather hampered travel on the Mississippi River and contributed to wildfires in the Midwest and East.
The National Weather Service continued to warn on Saturday of elevated fire danger in places including Connecticut, where a firefighter died last month while ‘ battled a day-long brush fire apparently fueled by an unextinguished camp fire.
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This story was translated from English by an AP editor with the help of a generational artificial intelligence engine.
2024-11-03 02:29:00
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