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Another Flint? How Oregon’s Data Center Boom Is Supercharging A Water Crisis
December 8th, 2025
Via Rolling Stone, a report on how Amazon has come to the state’s eastern farmland, worsening a water pollution problem that’s been linked to cancer and miscarriages: In the spring of 2022, Jim Doherty kept having the same conversation with folks at the only grocery store in Boardman, his eastern Oregon hometown, or at the […]
Read more »Overconsumption Gravely Threatens Water Security in the Binational Rio Grande-Bravo Basin
December 8th, 2025
Via Springer Nature, a new study reporting that overconsumption gravely threatens water security in the binational Rio Grande-Bravo basin: The Rio Grande-Bravo basin shared by the United States and Mexico is experiencing a severe water crisis demanding urgent attention. In recent decades, water storage reservoirs, aquifers, and annual streamflow volumes have been substantially depleted, leaving […]
Read more »Study: Something’s Gotta Give on the Rio Grande
November 21st, 2025
Via The Land Desk, a look at how climate change and overconsumption are drying up the Southwest’s “other” big river: The Colorado River and its woes tend to get all of the attention, but the Southwest’s “other” big river, the Rio Grande, is in even worse shape thanks to a combination of warming temperatures, drought, […]
Read more »Tehran’s Residents Are Panicking as Taps Run Dry
November 13th, 2025
Via Foreign Policy, a report on how years of drought and neglect have left Tehran nearly unsustainable: In recent days, prolonged water cuts across Tehran have created widespread panic among the Iranian capital’s 10 million residents. Last week, after years of drought and reduced rainfall and snowfall, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian warned that Tehran’s residents would have […]
Read more »Texas’s Water Wars
November 13th, 2025
Via the New Yorker, a look at how – as industrial operations move to the state – residents find that their drinking water has been promised to companies: In 2019, Corpus Christi, Texas’s eighth-largest city, moved forward with plans to build a desalination plant. The facility, which was expected to be completed by 2023, at […]
Read more »Phoenix Subdivision Builds Move Ahead, Despite Water Concerns
October 24th, 2025
Via High Country News, an article on the first crack in the Phoenix area’s suspension on new housing that relies on groundwater: Houses under construction in the Tartesso neighborhood in Buckeye, Arizona, in September. The formerly small agricultural city’s population has rapidly grown to 125,000 and is home to many large subdivisions.Caitlin O’Hara / High […]
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