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Couples in Bogotá are being asked to shower together as water supplies are rationed in the Colombian capital.
Major neighbourhoods were cut off from the water grid on Thursday to preserve dangerously low water levels at reservoirs that have been starved of rain by the weather phenomenon known as El Niño.
“Shower as a couple,” said the mayor of Bogotá, Carlos Fernando Galán. “This is an educational exercise in saving water, nothing else. That kind of thing is going to help us a lot. Those behavioral changes are key.”
Galán also asked residents to consider abandoning their daily hygiene practices entirely given the reservoirs were at “historic lows”.
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Major neighbourhoods were cut off from the water grid on Thursday to preserve dangerously low water levels at reservoirs that have been starved of rain by the weather phenomenon known as El Niño.
“Shower as a couple,” said the mayor of Bogotá, Carlos Fernando Galán. “This is an educational exercise in saving water, nothing else. That kind of thing is going to help us a lot. Those behavioral changes are key.”
Galán also asked residents to consider abandoning their daily hygiene practices entirely given the reservoirs were at “historic lows”.
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