Update as of noon Sunday: The city is no longer asking residents to conserv water usage. “Thank you for your willingness to do your part and help our wastewater collection and treatment systems,” the city posted on its Facebook page. “The City’s wastewater collection and treatment systems remain strained, but they are slowly catching up […]
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Scientists and Indigenous leaders team up to conserve seals and an ancestral way of life at Yakutat, Alaska
Five hundred years ago, in a mountain-rimmed ocean fjord in southeast Alaska, Tlingit hunters armed with bone-tipped harpoons eased their canoes through chunks of floating ice, stalking seals near Sít Tlein (Hubbard) glacier. They must have glanced nervously up at the glacier’s looming, fractured face, aware that cascades of ice could thunder down and imperil […]
JXN Water urges residents to conserve water after power outage at O.B. Curtis treatment plant
JXN Water has asked residents to conserve water on Friday morning after storms overnight Thursday caused a power outage at the system’s O.B. Curtis water treatment plant. Officials there said in a press release that residents can expect a loss in pressure until power is restored. Many Jackson-area residents woke up with no power Friday […]
ERCOT asks Texans to conserve electricity Monday morning, expects ‘tight grid conditions’
ERCOT, the agency that manages most of Texas’ power grid, is asking residents to conserve electricity if safe to do so from 6 a.m. to 10 a.m. Monday as frigid temperatures continue to grip the state. ERCOT said it is expecting similar conditions Tuesday morning and may issue another appeal then. Temperatures won’t rise above […]
Texans asked to conserve energy Monday as expected demand likely to put strain on electric grid
The Texas power grid operator is asking residents to conserve power Monday morning when a blast of cold weather is expected to bring temperatures well below freezing for much of the state. Parts of Texas will experience wind chills below 0 degrees, and some areas could see icy roads as subfreezing temperatures continue moving south […]