{"id":426,"date":"2008-06-12T03:44:26","date_gmt":"2008-06-12T08:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=426"},"modified":"2008-06-12T03:44:26","modified_gmt":"2008-06-12T08:44:26","slug":"whos-got-the-balls-to-protect-their-drinking-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/426","title":{"rendered":"Who&#039;s Got the Balls to Protect Their Drinking Water?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.treehugger.com\/files\/2008\/06\/water-plastic-balls.php\">Los Angeles.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The new strategy, unveiled yesterday by DWP officials, is to dump hundreds of thousands of plastic balls onto the Ivanhoe Reservoir&#8217;s surface (a reservoir adjacent to the Silver Lake Reservoir) to shade its water from sunlight. The reason for this rather unorthodox approach is simple: by blocking the sun, you prevent the reaction between bromide and chlorine, which forms bromate, from occurring.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So now it&#8217;s a big wet <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.xkcd.com\/viewtopic.php?f=9&amp;p=706140\">ball pit<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles. The new strategy, unveiled yesterday by DWP officials, is to dump hundreds of thousands of plastic balls onto the Ivanhoe Reservoir&#8217;s surface (a reservoir adjacent to the Silver Lake Reservoir) to shade its water from sunlight. The reason &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/426\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-science","category-silly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}