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Originally Posted by fotze2
What actually happens when in the red?
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There are underground cisterns scatter around high places. These act as buffer tanks and natural water pressure providers. At night when usage is low the city is able to refill them for the next day(during the day they are filling as well) but what the red means is we are drawing more during the day than can be recovered overnight, so the next day they are 80% full, then 70%...and so on. Once zero, we lose water pressure which is the big issue for fire fighting.
But another issue exists, which I think is the bigger one. Glenmore can process around 500ML a day. If we need more than that, they need to compromise processing, which means releasing less or unprocessed water into the system. Once this happens, we'd all be on boil water, and they'd have to flush everything before being deemed safe, which I think is a week or so process.
Going on memory from last time here, feel free to correct me. The 'ol pickle ain't what it used to be.