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Residents in Hillsborough County, Florida have been asked to cut back on non-essential water usage like watering lawns and washing cars and warned to expect a “change in taste and odor in drinking water” as dwindling supplies of liquid oxygen, ordinarily used to purify drinking water, are diverted to hospitals using it to treat the state’sdpa/picture alliance via Getty ImagesIn a statement Wednesday, Tampa Bay Water said it will start using sodium hypochlorite, commonly known as bleach, to...
The regional supplier, which serves some 2.5 million people, normally uses liquid oxygen to make ozone gas and eliminate hydrogen sulphide, a gas which can give the water a brown tinge and strong smell of rotten eggs. The supplier said it had not been receiving expected shipments of liquid oxygen as deliveries are being diverted to local hospitals to treat Covid-19 patients.
Residents in the Tampa Bay area might “notice a slight change” in the taste and smell of drinking water, Hillsborough CountyOfficials also implored residents to “help preserve the region's drinking water” and eliminate non-essential uses like washing cars, watering lawns and using pressure washers. asked to conserve drinking water due to a shortage of liquid oxygen. it has ever been.
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