Orlando Officials Urge Residents to Conserve Water as COVID-19 Hospitalizations Surge

Orlando, Florida, Mayor Buddy Dyer addresses the U.S. Conference of Mayors in Indianapolis on June 26, 2016. Michael Conroy/AP Photo

Officials in Orlando, Florida, are pushing residents to limit their water usage because of a rise in COVID-19-related hospitalizations.

The issue is that liquid oxygen—which is used by the Orlando Utilities Commission (OUC) to sanitize water for residential use as well as by hospitals to treat critically ill COVID-19 patients—is running short.