[foobarbecue]

Hm, the only reuse of municipal water I know is using treated sewer water for watering plants. I don't think any US cities recycle water back into a potable water system -- have you heard of that happening anywhere?

(I don't remember how this relates to the original argument)

Edit: oh if you meant "data center" by "municipal" then I guess! I thought you meant city drinking water

[arkensaw]

Ok I had heard of it happening in the UK but now I can't find any evidence of such, apart from a just approved scheme to treat wastewater and pump it into the Thames upstream, which is then used to source drinking water in London. So in a way, its going to happen in London, even if it hadn't already been, as I had believed.

But I would hope datacentres could use recycled or desalinated water for cooling rather than using drinking water.