Orlando urges residents to cut water usage amid liquid oxygen shortage

Residents of Orlando, Florida are facing several weeks of water cutbacks due to a shortage of liquid oxygen, which is used to treat the city’s water.

The shortage has been triggered by the Covid pandemic, as hospitals treating the current wave of infected patients with liquid oxygen has left a shortfall.

Orlando Utilities Commission said it expected to receive as little as half as much liquid oxygen in the coming weeks than is usually needed to remove odours and colour from the water supply.