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Baton Rouge Water Co. and its affiliate companies serving East Baton Rouge and Ascension parishes are asking more than 190,000 customers to conserve water immediately because of high water demand,
Industry Overuse Puts Capital City Drinking Water At Risk Until about 10 years ago, the 86-year-old retired contractor was like most of his neighbors in the city’s leafy Southdowns neighborhood near Louisiana State University; he simply didn’t put much thought into the water flowing from his taps. But then he went back to school and learned about hydrology and the movement of water underground. He got a master’s degree in climatology and wrote his thesis on the city’s freshwater supply. “I became very concerned that the aquifer was in danger from saltwater intrusion,” said Town, w...