Browsing: water use and conservation
Among Americans’ many concerns about data centers—from the constant humming sound to high electricity prices—heavy water consumption stands out. Residents…
OpenAI and Oracle are building one of the U.S.’ biggest data centers in NM, which is in drought
New Mexico’s forests are dying faster than at any time on record. In 2025, the state mapped 209,000 acres of…
Matt Damon’s new campaign asks Gap, Starbucks, and Amazon to help give water back to the earth
Water.org, the nonprofit co-founded by actor Matt Damon and engineer Gary White, is launching Get Blue, a consumer-facing campaign that…
Earlier this month, a balloon coated in aluminum foil—the kind normally seen at a child’s birthday party—drifted into the path…
Amid ‘global water bankruptcy,’ markets are not pricing in water and drought risk, analyst warns
The world is in deep water, but only metaphorically. Basins, aquifers, and other natural storage systems have been drained past…
First-of-its-kind study finds ‘secret fresh water’ that may stretch from New Jersey to Maine
Deep in Earth’s past, an icy landscape became a seascape as the ice melted and the oceans rose off what…
‘It’s so dystopian. It’s sad’: The Rio Grande River is so dry that Texas, Colorado and New Mexico are squabbling over groundwater
A simmering feud over management of one of North America’s longest rivers reached a boiling point when the U.S. Supreme…
‘It’s getting pretty scary’: The Colorado River, 40 million Americans, 7 states and no plan for how to manage inevitable decline
Earlier this year, several environmental groups sent a petition to the federal government with a seemingly simple message: Ensure that water from…
Ex-Google CEO says superintelligence is tech’s holy grail—but the U.S. is ill-equipped to address its ‘natural limit’
It seems every company under the sun these days is leveraging, investing in, or using AI in some way or…
A firefighter’s frustration with scrambling to fire hydrants for water sparked an idea: Meet the Heli-Hydrant
CABAZON, Calif. (AP) — Mark Whaling and a crew raced up and down a hill in a tanker truck as…












