ORLANDO, Fla. - The City of Orlando is asking residents to reduce water consumption due to COVID-19.Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer and the Orlando Utilities Commission (OUC) held a news conference asking residents to stop watering their lawns and washing their cars for at least a week.
Mayor Dyer said Friday that water usage needed to be cut back because of the recent surge of COVID-19 hospitalizations. OUC treats the city's water with liquid oxygen and supplies that ordinarily go toward water treatment have been diverted to hospitals for patients suffering from the virus. RELATED: AdventHealth has highest number of COVID-19 hospitalizations to date"It’s another result what happens when residents don’t get vaccinated and become critically ill and.