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Waterworks employees saw fans losing faith in national team by monitoring water intake

Photo: PAP/Tytus Żmijewski
Photo: PAP/Tytus Żmijewski
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Waterworks employees claim water intake in the city paints a picture of how fans were losing hope in the Polish national football team in real-time.

After the first halves of the matches against Austria and the Netherlands, water intake in Szczecin, northwestern Poland, suddenly increased by almost 350 cubic meters/hour, and later dropped.

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Water intake from the city’s network allowed the waterworks employees to estimate how many city residents were sitting in front of their TV sets.

When an important match of Poland’s national football team begins, water supply monitoring registers a drop in water consumption by several percent.

“After the whistle for the break, fans rush en masse to the restroom and kitchen to make tea or coffee,” Hanna Pieczyńska, a spokeswoman for the waterworks in Szczecin, told the Polish Press Agency (PAP). “The most interesting thing is that in the second half of the match against the Netherlands, there was again a clear drop in water intake, and after the match, there was another peak.”

“In contrast, the graph of water intake in the second half of the match against Austria is flatter. When the players returned to the field, you can see a temporary drop, but after more lost goals [scored by the Dutch] the water intake grew, as people walked away from their TV sets,” she explained.
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