How should I take care of a wet carpet?

So I have this portable air conditioner I use and have the condensation drain into a container. Was using it the past few days and only just realized there was a small hole in the container. So for those few days it's been slowly leaking water into the carpet floor.

I know stuff like this can lead to mold or other kinds of damage. What would be an easy, cost effective way to take care of this? I tried blowing it with a hair dryer but I'm not sure it's doing much help.