Sentences with phrase «local water supplies ran»

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In the short run, our choices for what kind of power plants we build can contribute to freshwater supply stress — by committing an imbalanced share of the available water to power plant use — and can affect water quality, by increasing water temperatures to levels that harm local ecosystems, for example.

Now under a federal state of emergency, following a government edict in February, local media reports say that Day Zero — the day when the city's water supply is switched off — has been set back to July 9 — a relief to those who had previously believed that April 16 or May 11 would see the taps stop running.