UK Agencies Urge Residents to Delete Emails and Photos to Save Water

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• The National Drought Group declared the current water shortfall situation in England a nationally significant incident on Monday, with five areas officially in drought and six more experiencing "prolonged dry weather," following the driest six months to July since 1976.
  

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  Daily Mail
• The Environment Agency recommended that citizens delete old emails and photos as part of water conservation efforts, citing that data centers storing cloud-based files consume large amounts of water for their cooling systems to prevent servers from overheating.
  

  The Telegraph

  

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