CALGARY — Repairs to a fractured Calgary water pipe were paused Thursday after two workers were injured at the site, while the city's mayor pleaded with residents to step up their conservation efforts. "I want you to think about a fire truck pulling up, facing a serious situation," Mayor Jyoti Gondek said in a morning media update. "They hook up to a hydrant and dribbles come out.
This could be a reality if we don't start conserving more water." Gondek said daily water use increased by another eight million litres on Wednesday. That would bring the city's consumption up to 490 million litres -- well above Saturday's 440-million-litre mark and right on the city's threshold for safety.
"We are in a place where we don't have enough of a cushion for emergencies," she said. "There's still a real chance we could run out of water. "I know this is inconvenient, I know it's hard to hear that we must do more.
But we simply must." Still, repair work on the line -- which carried 60 per cent of the city's water -- was not expected to resume until Thursday afternoon at the earliest after the workers were injured about 10 p.m.
Wednesday. "Both workers were transported to hospital and work was paused pending a safety investigation," said Calgary chief administrative officer David Duckworth. Neither worker was in critical condition.
Duckworth said officials were concerned with repairing the pipe and that questions about what caused the break could wait. "Out teams are focused on carefully r.
