Hyundai’s Georgia EV plant will take 6.6 million gallons of water a day from the drinking supply

The Army Corps concluded that the project would have “negligible impacts on municipal and private water supplies,” but activists are pushing back.

A federal agency plans to reassess its environmental permit for Hyundai’s $7.6 billion electric vehicle plant in Georgia after a conservation group complained that regulators failed to properly examine the sprawling factory’s potential impacts on the area’s water supply.