Google’s Water Demands ‘threat To Public Health And Safety’

[Reba]

MOUNT PLEASANT — A proposal to pump up to 1.5 million gallons of water daily from an aquifer in order to cool Google’s server farm near Goose Creek and Moncks Corner could imperil the area’s drinking water, a town councilman said.

“This aquifer is ... a primary source of water supply not only to 80,000 citizens of Mount Pleasant but also the surrounding Charleston County area,” said Mark Smith, chairman of the town’s Water Supply Committee and an ex-officio Mount Pleasant Waterworks commissioner.

The application by Maguro Enterprises — the business name for Google’s local operations — calls for pulling potentially 549 million gallons yearly from the aquifer. That’s three times the amount it is currently permitted to withdraw....

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http://www.postandcourier.com/20160...er-demands-threat-to-public-health-and-safety


This concerns my local/Charleston area. It's a strange problem to have.

 

[Foxrac]

Oh wow... *eating apple*

 

[Barbaro]

That's bummer. The US is already sinking now. Can't Google see that? Google can find something else. We gotta preserve aquifers right now. I mean, literally right now. The government even doesn't monitor it at all, because some state governments don't recognize groundwater a public good. California is already self-destructing itself now.