Extract:
Hundreds of thousands of residents across Sydney’s lower and upper north shore have been urged to conserve water and cut back on non-essential use after a major water main broke last night, flooding critical equipment.
Sydney Water said the break happened at their West Ryde pumping station on Wednesday night, which has limited the amount of drinking water that can be transferred to local reservoirs to meet demand.
Edit: The article does say that drinking water is fine. They're just asking people to minimise non-essential use.
List of Suburbs impacted:
Allambie Heights, Artarmon, Cammeray, Castle Cove, Castlecrag, Chatswood, Chatswood West, Cremorne, Crows Nest, East Killara, East Lindfield, East Ryde, Ermington, Gladesville, Gordon, Greenwich, Hunters Hill, Huntleys Point, Killara, Kirribilli, Lane Cove, Lane Cove West, Lindfield, Longueville, Meadowbank, Mosman, Narremburn, Neutral Bay, North Ryde, North Willoughby, Northbridge, Putney, Pymble, Riverview, Roseville, Roseville Chase, Rydalmere, Ryde, St Leonards, Tennyson Point, Waverton, West Pymble, West Ryde, Willoughby, Wollstonecraft, Woolwich.
Posted by confusedemus
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Damn. I’d start to hoard but all my jerry cans are already filled with diesel.
Damn, about to head home and lay some pipe. I don’t think half flush will cut it with this one. 😮💨
Map here:
https://www.sydneywater.com.au/water-the-environment/what-you-can-do/report-fault/major-incident-page.html
Does Sydney Water ever actually contact customers when stuff like this happens? I only ever seem to find out about it via social media!
Looking at the rain rn I don’t think any water needs to be saved😭
I’m in one of those suburbs and would have heard absolutely nothing if not for Reddit!
As any of these rich areas knows how to conserve
[video](https://www.instagram.com/p/DWTT63Zjw3S/)
Well maybe if I didn’t have to be on hold for over an hour to report leaking pipes
just had a shower in the storm, doin my part
Apparently money’s the only thing we can’t save up now.
As if the people there are going to go easy on the water. They will use as much as humanly possible til it runs out
first I’ve heard of it – If they aren’t reaching out to residents in those areas I guess they’re really not that concerned.
Allambie Heights seems a bit of a random island of drought included in that list. Non of the surrounding areas, Brookvale, Balgowlah, Beacon Hill, Frenches Forest, Forestville, Killarney Heights,…?
Surely this isn’t going to cause panic buying of water bottles from the affected residents, right?
Right…?