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I've come home for the last two weeks to my apartment in Inwood to NO water in my apartment...I can't cook, use the toilet more than once, wash my hands, or take a shower.

I've called DEP enough to drive them crazy and actually recieved a reply from someone's cell phone.

The hydrants in Inwood are routinely opened on almost every block rendering my supply to 0 in my apartment on the 5th floor.

Angry and frustrated is putting my mood mildly.

New york should increase the water and sewage rates. That'll keep people from spraying down their porch to get rid of 2 rogue leaves.

I could live with a blackout, but if the water system went off, it wouldn't be very pleasant.

Hello,

I've been listening to your programs on water and air conditioning.

I think the whole water and air conditioning issue should be rethought more fundamentally. I'm originally from Germany, a country that, partly due to its post-war savings mentality and early environmental consciousness, has always treated water and electricity as a prescious supplies, and a natural resource that can vanish unless it's used with care (eg. not letting run the shower before you're in it, switching off all lights when leaving the house). In many countries in the world (including southern Germany) people suffer from high temperatures, but seem to find alternative ways of cooling off / using water.

I think it wouldn't hurt for people to think about simple ways of conserving water and energy: why clean your front yeard with water, instead of sweeping it? Why open up water hydrants, instead of providing more environmentally friendly cooling shelters? Why not insulate roofs and attics more effectively, in order to stop houses from warming up or cooling down too much?

I'm a little disappointed that NPR doesn't seem to ask more critical questions and encourages its listeners to change their way of thinking about these issues. I feel like they're often presented as casual, almost surprising incidents.

Opening a fire hydrant for any other use than putting out fires should be a felony in New York City. They are routinely opened wasting hundreds of thousands of gallons of water, left running overnight, endanger the community and 311 does little to nothing to stop this problem, at least in poorer neighborhoods they do nothing.
If people want to cool off, take a shower, don’t endanger EVERYONE in your neighborhood.
This is clean potable water, not some resource to just be wasted and fill the gutters.
Also, any firehouse giving out sprinkler caps should be shutdown. If firefighters want to keep their jobs, healthcare, and pensions, use hydrants for fires and fires only.

As a new customer of Acquarion in North Stamford, CT I would like to know how are these requests are being passed on to customers?

Now that the heat has created a focus water, where are all those who complain about the necessary increase in water and sewage rates?

Is there anything more lazy than a person washing the 25 dead leaves from his or her driveway with a hose? It enrages me. Especially on a hot day. Yesterday walking in my Brooklyn neighborhood I saw at least 5 people using a hose in the middle of the day to wash their driveways/steps/walkways. Use a broom!

Only 10-30 calls for hydrants? There are at least 10 open in Ridgewood at any given time.

As I walk into work through a couple of Bronx neighborhoods, I see a number of open hydrants that were clearly on all night. I understand it is difficult to close them while people are playing in them, could you possibly send DEP staff out at night to shut down open hydrants?

back is the 90's the Fire department tried using
there "locks" on the hydrants that could not be easily opened by non city personnel, the irresponsible NY times early this week with a picture of an open hydrant as a heat reliever....

people should be ticketed for opening them...

I automatically lessen my water usage in hot weather. I don't understand why people use more water in hot weather! I say this innocently in honest ignorance. Why would people use more water in hot weather?

Water does not have a finite supply. I came from CA and was shocked to find the water being wasted constantly. Lawn Sprinklers running during a thunderstorm miday!

Tuesday morning I discovered I had only half the normal water pressure in my house. It gave me pause; I thought how precious our Long Island water is and how much we take it for granted.