Plastic balls to help save water in Los Angeles

We are not the only people suffering from a terrible drought.

California has been suffering from a record-breaking four year long drought and now Los Angeles turned to quite an unusual way to try and save more water.

To prevent millions of litres evaporating from the Los Angeles reservoir in Sylmar, California they released 96 million black, plastic balls into the reservoir.

The Daily Mail reported that these polyethylene balls are used to block the sun’s rays which prevents water from evaporating, but also protects it from being contaminated by dust, rain and bird droppings.

The balls are about the size of an apple and cost around R4.61 a ball.