“Wanted: Man, not too young or too sociable, who likes to read and listen to the radio; cooking skills a plus.” That’s how a classified ad might have read for the ideal water-intake crib employee. The tenders lived and worked on the cribs for a week, then got a week of “shore leave.” The work–mostly keeping the intake ports free of ice and other obstructions–wasn’t bad if you didn’t mind the isolation and the spartan living conditions. Any openings now? The city won’t say; homeland security, you know.
Billions of gallons of water processed per day by the city: 1.
Gallons used per day by the average American: 123.
Percentage of bottled water sold in the U.S. that is derived from tap water: 25.
Weeks it took Jack Torrance to start to go mad while isolated with his family in the film “The Shining”: 4.
