Orlando water announcement
 

The city of Orlando is asking residents to reduce water consumption IMMEDIATELY. Liquid oxygen used to treat water is being diverted to the hospitals to treat COVID patients. They believe if water consumption doesn’t change, water treatment could hit a critical point in a week.

Boil water notice coming soon!

So for those who don't understand secondary and tertiary effects of virus prevention, maybe you might want to reconsider

Probably not going to happen in heat of the summer.

It is the heat of summer NOW

I think this is disturbing news. Will this problem become more widespread? Who knows? I had no idea liquid oxygen was used to treat water.

From the OUC website:

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. But, we believe that will not happen if everyone does their part to conserve water.

I'm trying to understand the scope of this problem.

So ... across Florida, or across the USA for that matter, does every water treatment plant use liquid oxygen to treat water? Are there some (or many) water treatment plants that use a system which does not use liquid oxygen?

How did the population of the USA go from 100,000,000 to over 300,000,000 with this issue?

Why have we not heard of this "issue" before in drought stricken areas of the country.

As was said in an earlier post...."what is the scope of the problem"?

Another part of the story news report....the bar is not very high anymore for what gets passed on to the general public....and the general public believes most of it!

The magazine 'Fox and Hound' had an article in their July edition that the new Costco that's coming to Clermont will be selling liquid oxygen

What was the status of the liquid oxygen at the peak of the pandemic hospitalizations during 2020??

I do not recall even hearing about it last year.

Florida hospitalizations appears to be at 200% what they were in January and 150% what they were last July.

Different time. IN 2020, we had a declared state of emergency and that allowed many waivers on transportation of and delivering oxygen.

..” absent certain transportation waivers, “hospitals are fighting with a hand tied behind their back and don’t have the same chance that they did when states had the public health emergencies declared,” said Soumi Saha, vice president of advocacy for hospital supply purchasing group Premier Inc.”

Florida Hospitals Fighting to Get Oxygen Amid Covid Delta Variant Surge - Bloomberg

Just watched the mayor of Orlando speak on this. He mention nothing about something critical happening in a week. Yes, there is an issue that requires optional water usage to be reduced, but the sky is not yet falling. Remain calm.

Is Orlando the watershed for The Villages? In other words, does this mean us?

Unless you are one who needs it now

I understood that announcement of limiting water to mean due to the heat and watering lawns. They ask that for many areas in the country (even here) during the hot/summer months. I didn't hear anything about oxygen. I do have a question though....was in Walgreens last week and saw small canisters of "oxygen" that one can buy. Have never seen that before.