Data center cooling uses a lot of water, but the industry is beginning to use water more sustainably through various actions. Data center cooling takes a lot of water, which is problematic, especially when areas where data centers are located experience water scarcity issues. Some companies are taking steps to improve their water stewardship and […]
Google data center water use – once a closely held secret – was revealed last fall. In 2021 they used 3.3 billion gallons of water in the US alone, and another almost 1 billion globally. Google data centers use water, and a lot of it, because they use a lot of electricity to make all […]
Many shifts are apparent as climate change grips the Earth, from higher average temperatures, to rising sea levels to reduced snowpack, but one water resource-related impact that has been less understood is groundwater. Harnessing new readings and data models, a recent study was published in Nature Climate Change, which found that in many places around […]
Stephen Leahy is an award-winning environmental journalist who’s taken a particular interest in what he calls the “hidden world of virtual water” that surrounds us. Stephen Leahy wrote Your Water Footprint: The Shocking Facts About How Much Water We Use To Make Everyday Products, to illustrate the somewhat mysterious concept of virtual water using graphics and […]
The water crisis we’re headed into can be turned around with planning, management, engineering and smart economics, and we can achieve water independence. Can we avoid diving into a water crisis? Are we headed into a water crisis? Many of us in the environmental field have been talking about how we’re running out of freshwater, […]
Your diet makes up the vast majority of your water footprint. Here are nine ways to make your diet more water-friendly and reduce your water footprint. Your Diet and the Water in Your Food The connection between your diet, food and water is an obvious one. If you grew a lima bean in third grade […]
Snowpacks in the Western US are trending smaller because of climate change, and the dwindling runoff that supplies meltwater to the Colorado River is a sign that western water supplies are threatened. Snowpack, Snow Drought and the Western US Snowpacks in the United States are a critical water reserve, but climate change induced hot spots […]
California Cities and Farms Can Share Water to Manage Allocations A recent report by Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) details how water partnerships between southern California cities and farmers in the San Joaquin Valley could stabilize conditions for farmers, help cities during droughts and align with Governor Newsom’s Water Resilience Portfolio. Water is so […]
Imagine a day without tap water. Can you do it? Imagine a day without tap water. Can you do it? And while we’re at it, do you know where your tap water comes from? We’re not talking about the bottled water you pay way too much money for in the store. When you turn on […]
