Consumers in the Potomac River Basin are being encouraged to limit their water use and river health groups stressed data centers with high water usage need to heed the call.
Below-average rainfall and groundwater supply have put the large watershed in conditions ranging from abnormally dry to extreme drought, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor. Officials have asked for voluntary water conservation in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area.
Pat Calvert, Virginia director of conservation for the environmental nonprofit American Rivers, said data centers need to adhere to preservation practices taking shape around the Commonwealth…