La Dumps Millions Of Plastic Balls In City Reservoir To Fight Drought

[Spartan]

On Monday, LA mayor Eric Garcetti dumped 20,000 so-called “shade balls” into the Los Angeles Reservoir. It’s the final stage of that city’s water quality protection plan, an effort costing $34.5 million. A shade ball, which sounds like it could be a Pokemon move, is actually a clever water-cleaning device: Each one reduces evaporation, protects against animals and dirt, and costs a mere 36 cents.

 

A total of 96 million have been poured into the 175-acre reservoir, which holds up to 3.3 billion gallons of water.

 

LA is the first city to use this type of innovation for water quality control. Shade balls are also useful for staving off algae growth and preventing harmful chemical reactions between sunlight and chlorine. In a press release, the city claims shade balls are a “cost-effective way to reduce evaporation each year by nearly 300 million gallons, enough to provide drinking water for 8,100 people for a full year.”

 

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[Spartan]

funny conversation:

 

Why are the balls black, instead of white?

Wouldn’t black warm up more than a white ball would, and wouldn’t cooler temperatures be preferable?

What am I missing?

 

The white balls were 10 cents more on Amazon.

 

Actually it was the Prime Shipping.

 

The whites don’t prefer that kind of dirty, menial labor.

 

#BlackBallsMatter  -----idaite LOLest......

[Spartan]

FYI:

 

They are PBA free, water ballasted, and are produced locally by minority female owned businesses employing veterans .

 

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