Comment by awongh
It's unclear what you really mean here, but "suffer" from "scarcity" could mean a few things.
Tech is not immune from abuses of power, but most water scarcity that causes suffering (people being literally thirsty or can't wash their clothes) is not a resource issue (amount of water available)- it's a political/infrastructure issue. Don't build a data center that takes away people's clean drinking water. Build water infrastructure where people live.
But of course that's not the problem described by the article, even though the writer would like to lightly imply that might be the case.
Edit to add: Water and water rights in the western USA is a political issue that politicians would have you believe is not up to them. It's a scam and an advertising campaign that has people buying low flush toilets when a lot of the water is wasted by big Ag companies.
My personal experience with suffering from water scarcity: Taking a loss on a crop of corn because the farm at the front of the ditch took more water than they were supposed to take. That same year, a ditch rider was threatened at gunpoint.
When your own personal livelihood depends on another business playing fair with water, these kinds of stories hit different.
It absolutely is a resource issue. It is also very much also a political issue.