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Here’s what’s happening after this Canadian city lost much of its water supply overnight
The residents of Calgary have been finding creative ways to reduce water consumption since the morning of June 5 when residents were jolted awake by an emergency phone alert
The rhythmic chug of the 80-year-old steam train at Calgary’s Heritage Park has gone silent.
Nowadays, the roughly 5,000 litres of water required every day to create the steam to build the pressure that pushes the pistons that turns the wheels that transports the historically-minded tourists around the track is a finite resource. Put another way, that’s enough water to take 50 baths, run a garden hose for five hours or flush 100 toilets — all activities now frowned upon in a city now three weeks into an unprecedented water main break that isn’t totally fixed yet.
The residents of Calgary, the third-largest city in the country, have been finding creative ways to reduce water consumption since the morning of June 5 when many of its 1.3 million residents were jolted awake by an emergency phone alert warning that the city’s water supply was in a “critical” state.
