A new Congressional Research Service report examines data center water use, including Colorado River supplies, reuse and growing demands.
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A California startup backed by Nobel Prize-winning chemist Omar Yaghi is developing large machines that harvest water directly from the atmosphere for drought regions and data centers.
Video: Water pressures are converging across the American West
This week's water news video covers mounting water pressures across the American West, including Arizona groundwater, Colorado River management after 2026, the Great Salt Lake, wildfire recovery, and...
Data centers, mining, wildfire fallout, dam operations, and drought shifts—this week’s Colorado River updates reveal both conflict and hard-won progress.
Utah lawmakers advance a bill requiring data centers to report annual water use, with fines for noncompliance and public disclosure of non-identifying totals.