That’s enough wastewater to fill 492 Olympic-size swimming pools, and it’s all lifted up into the treatment facilities by a set of simple open-air pumps. Once they wake, Philadelphians will send 325 million gallons of raw sewage to this plant and two others like it. Robert Moore is operations crew chief for the Southwest Water Pollution Control Plant (left) and Anthony Davis is computer room operator. “As people wake up, and they start showering, washing - hopefully, they’re washing, y’know what i’m saying? - and this flow is going to go up.” The night sky is just barely beginning to lighten. The skies were clear.Ĭrickets are chirping outside the Southwest Water Pollution Control Plant as Tony Davis monitors three different screens, keeping track of South Philly’s water usage and the Delaware River’s tidal flows.īesides a steady buzz from the room’s fluorescent lights, things have been quiet for Robert Moore, the operations crew chief working the overnight shift. The weather was on the cool side for August. 28, 2017, WHYY sent a team of reporters and photographers out to chronicle of just some of the myriad, routine affairs handled by local government and the 53,000 employees that work for the city, SEPTA, and other governmental agencies. We expect that improbable string of successes to repeat itself, every day, for each of the city’s 1,580,863 residents. A single shower means a hundred things or more worked the way they were supposed to.
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To take that shower, you need the water pumps to not fail, and the water pipes to not crack the gas has to stay on, and the power lines to have to stay up. Service lines connected to the mains then draw the water into apartments and homes, where it’s heated, thanks to gas and electrical networks just as massive and intricate as the water system, if not more so. The city’s water-treatment plants pull from the Schuylkill and Delaware Rivers, clean the water of grime and germs, then pump it through a 3,200-mile maze of pipes that zigzag underneath the city.
The president replaced him with Wickremesinghe, an opposition parliamentarian who has held the post five times previously, in a desperate bid to placate protesters.īut the protesters have said they will keep up their campaign as long as Gotabaya Rajapaksa remains president.WHYY thanks our sponsors - become a WHYY sponsorīefore you can take something even as simple as a morning shower, a dozen different things must go right. The crisis led to widespread protests against President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and his family, culminating in the resignation of his elder brother Mahinda as prime minister last week after fighting between government supporters and protesters killed 9 people and wounded 300. “We must prepare ourselves to make some sacrifices and face the challenges of this period.” Two shipments of petrol and two of diesel using an Indian credit line could provide relief in the next few days, he added, but the country is also facing a shortage of 14 essential medicines. The next couple of months will be the most difficult ones of our lives,” he said. “At the moment, we only have petrol stocks for a single day. Ranil Wickremesinghe, appointed prime minister on Thursday, said in an address to the nation the country urgently needed $75 million in foreign exchange to pay for essential imports.
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s new prime minister said on Monday the crisis-hit nation was down to its last day of petrol, as the country’s power minister told citizens not to join the lengthy fuel queues that have galvanised weeks of anti-government protests.
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