[USMA:37015] Odd mixture in Canada

[Ezra Steinberg]

I listened to a very interesting piece from the BBC (broacast over NPR) about how state-of-the-art the waste treatment facilities are in Calgary, Alberta.   I was not surprised to hear the Canadians being interviewed use kilometers in their speech (pronounced always as kill-AH-muh-ters, whereas the BBC announcer said KILL-uh-mee-ters). However, I was suprised to hear an engineer use kilometers to describe distance and then a few sentences later use gallons to describe the amount of water flow through their system).   Does that likely come from the fact that perhaps the equipment in use there comes from the States and is constructed using only customary units in the sales literatures, gauge readouts, etc? (One would have thought that, even in that case, the manufacturer would offer a simple way of switching between US Customary and SI to accomodate a world-wide customer base.)   Ezra