Chisinau streets sprinkled to fight heat

The streets of Chisinau are sprinkled with water to cool the heated asphalt between 11.00 AM and 4.00 PM. Efim Cheptanari, head of municipal enterprise Exdrupo, told Info-Prim Neo that priority would be given to the streets with the most busy traffic. This measure will be in effect until temperatures drop. According to Efim Cheptanarii, 36 tonnes of water are used daily in each district of the city. At the beginning of the week, meteorologists issued a yellow code alert for a heat wave, but the alert was increased to orange code on Tuesday for temperatures of +36..+38 degrees Celsius.