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The US state of California has been suffering for many years in a row in the summertime from a terrible drought, leading to significant shortage of fresh water.
Huge volumes of drinking water evaporate before leaving pipes to taxpayer houses. Local officials for a long time were thinking about how to minimize the evaporation of moisture from reservoirs, and now seem to have found the perfect solution.
The truth, which states that everything ingenious is simple, was confirmed in Once again. Specialist Brian White of Los Angeles, long ago, to In short, being a pensioner, he suggested dumping into reservoirs balls made of black food plastic. An elderly expert said that balls will float on the surface of the pond, while black will effectively reflect the sun’s rays. The result is fresh water will evaporate at a much lower speed.
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The technology proposed by White has already been tested in urban Las Virginia Water Area. In the video below you can to see how they are dumped from trucks into a local reservoir about ninety-six million plastic balls. Every ball the size of an apple has a cost of thirty-six cents – quality food grade plastic is not cheap. Therefore, the cost all the plastic dumped into the pond is about thirty four and a half million dollars.
According to officials, despite such an impressive amount, these costs are fully justified. Due to volume reduction evaporated by the sun plastic balls in the reservoir will allow save up to a quarter of a billion dollars annually.
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