The Los Angeles Wildfires Have Created Another Problem– Unsafe Drinking Water
Depressurization, the other huge factor to contamination, happens when firefighting efforts draw enormous quantities of water from the system in a brief duration. "A water line that links to a home can usually put out about 9 gallons per minute," states Whelton."Firefighters can draw 500 gallons or as much as 1,500 gallons of water per minute. If you were to run 5 or 6 pumper trucks off of a water line, you're looking at thousands of gallons of water being drawn out from the water system in an extremely brief duration."When that takes place, water pressure drops, and the system ends up being susceptible to germs or chemicals going into the system from the surrounding environment. Normally, the high pressure of the water inside the system avoids any outdoors impurities-- such as soil or gro...