Complex sentence: The temperature was an unusually high, and because of local a plumbers'strike Disney was given a choice of having working drinking fountains or running toilets and he chose the latter leaving many of the park's drinking fountains dry.
Split into simpler sentences: The temperature was an unusually high, and because of a local plumbers'strike, Disney was given a choice of having working drinking fountains or running toilets. He chose the latter, leaving many of the park's drinking fountains dry.