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...number of residents in a home, each individual will be limited to between 32 and 49 gallons a day. That is roughly enough water to flush a toilet seven times or take a five-minute shower. The cost, moreover, will nearly triple, from 46? per 100 cu. ft. (748 gal.) to $1.22. Anyone who exceeds the ration will be billed a punishing $10 to $50 per cu. ft. for the excess...
...result has been a rash of new habits. Men have been surprised to learn that a shave normally consumes 2% gal. of water; they are no longer filling wash basins just to cut whiskers. Julie Graham, a San Rafael housewife with three children, uses a pail to catch the cool water her husband runs until he gets hot water for shaving. She carries it in a bucket to the kitchen to wash dishes. Then she collects the dishwater in another pail, as well as water from the clothes washer, and uses it to flush toilets. "I've spent...
...freeze of the waterways aggravated the region's fuel crisis. For a time, Cincinnati Gas and Electric Co. had 3 million gal. of fuel oil stalled on the Mississippi, 400,000 gal. blocked on the Ohio near Aurora, Ind., and another 400,000 gal. stuck in the river near Paducah, Ky. Electric utilities sent out crews armed with hammers and iron bars to smash the frozen coal loose from rail cars. "It's absolutely miserable work," said Detroit Edison Co. Vice President Walter J. McCarthy Jr. Strapped for fuel, his firm at one point was turning out only...
...winding roads impassable, the children have been able to attend school only three days this month. When the town's water supply was blocked by a frozen valve, the National Guard trucked in water to the fire station, where residents lined up with jugs for their 2-gal. rations. In their mutual need, the townspeople found a new spirit of closeness. "Everybody is working as one big family," said Municipal Inspector Randy McCully...
Another tanker alarm: one day last week the skipper of the Liberian-registered Harmonic, just arrived in New York harbor with a cargo of 25 million gal. of Libyan crude oil, put in an urgent call to the Coast Guard. Possibly the result of heavy storms encountered at sea, the ship had sprung a small leak, spilling about 300 gal. of oil into the waters of the harbor. That minispill was certainly the least of the tanker accidents that have occurred in U.S. waters since mid-December, but no one could say it would be the last...