Portland is disposing of eight million gallons of drinking water because a man was caught on camera urinating in a reservoir.
The water tower was drained by cranking open a fire hydrant in town, soaking the streets in 5,000 gallons of drinking water.
America's largest, the plant will at first produce 25m gallons of drinking water a day at a wholesale cost of $1.71 per 1,000 gallons, or 45 cents per cubic metre, in the plant's first year of life.
Lacking natural water supplies, the emirate has invested heavily in desalination plants on the coast of the Gulf; these produce about 800,000 cubic meters, or 210 million gallons, of drinking water every day for its 1.2 million residents.
The Bangladeshi Defense Ministry said 1,000 members of the army were using 65 speedboats for relief and rescue work, distributing 1,400 packets of dry food, more than 10 metric tons of other food items and 20,000 gallons of drinking water.
The $320 million project proposed by Poseidon Resources could be operational by 2012 in Carlsbad and produce 50 million gallons of drinking water a day, or 10percentt of the supply for San Diego County.
According to the International Desalination Association, Ras Al-Khain, in Saudi Arabia, is the largest desal plant in the world, producing two hundred and seventy-three million gallons of drinking water per day, more than five times the capacity of Carlsbad.
In 1990, that meant that greater Atlanta pulled an average of about 320 million gallons of drinking water a day from the Chattahoochee, according to state and local officials.
5. (D) The mystery was not so much why officials would throw away eight million gallons of drinking water because of an estimated 250 milliliters of urine, but why, with a whole reservoir in front of him, the guy still managed to spatter some on the rim.
Built between the 1890s and 1940s, this infrastructure still sustains some nine million people with over 1.2 billion gallons of drinking water every day.
