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Seconds later, she turns on the faucet in the water pit and hoses off a pot that looks to be a third her size.

Customers purchase what they need a la carte — a combination of jacket hoses, nozzles, valves and adapters that, when assembled, vastly increases the water flow rate from a homeowner’s outdoor faucet.

Chlorine is added to kill lingering pathogens, including those that may reside in the service pipes carrying the water to the faucet.

Gravity draws the water down into faucets, pools and hydrants below, and then the tanks are refilled with water pumped up from the city’s pipelines.

Forgiveness can be a one-person endeavor, but anger and sorrow aren’t faucets that turn off with a pardon.