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Remember, however, that people often want black or white answers. Is it getting wetter or drier? As we saw this week in Atlanta, “both” is a viable answer.
By the way, dry conditions associated with drought can also amplify flooding because extreme rain falling on hard, dry surfaces increases runoff rate like a paved surface.
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#drought #climatecrisis
https://www.forbes.com/sites/marshallshepherd/2026/05/22/6-teachable-moments-from-an-atlanta-rush-hour-downpour/
Corpus Christi Faces Severe Water Shortage Amid Drought and Growing Industrial Demand
📰 Original title: Why Corpus Christi faces a looming water shortage, and what might help
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Corpus Christi, Texas, and the surrounding Coastal Bend region are facing a significant water shortage that has impacted residents, businesses, and industrial operations. Since August 2024, restrictions have limited lawn watering and other non-essential uses, with potential for stricter limits if drought conditions persist. The city relies on the Nueces, Lavaca-Navidad, and Colorado river basins for most of its water, with reservoirs such as Choke Canyon and Lake Corpus Christi currently at just 8% capacity. Industrial expansion, especially at the Port of Corpus Christi, has sharply increased water demand, and new water sources have not been developed since 2016. Plans for a desalination plant were abandoned due to rising costs, leaving the city to explore alternative measures. These include groundwater wells, reclaimed wastewater for industrial and irrigation use, and potential purchases from a nearly completed desalination facility. Long-term solutions will require careful planning, significant investment, and consideration of climate change impacts to ensure reliable water availability for both residents and industries.
Corpus Christi Faces Severe Water Shortage Amid Drought and Growing Industrial Demand
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Corpus Christi, Texas, and the surrounding Coastal Bend region are facing a significant water shortage that has impacted residents, businesses, and industrial operations. Since August 2024, restrictions have limited lawn watering and other non-essential uses, with potential for stricter limits if drought conditions persist. The city relies on the Nueces, Lavaca-Navidad, and Colorado river basins for most of its water, with reservoirs such as Choke Canyon and Lake Corpus Christi currently at just 8% capacity. Industrial expansion, especially at the Port of Corpus Christi, has sharply increased water demand, and new water sources have not been developed since 2016. Plans for a desalination plant were abandoned due to rising costs, leaving the city to explore alternative measures. These include groundwater wells, reclaimed wastewater for industrial and irrigation use, and potential purchases from a nearly completed desalination facility. Long-term solutions will require careful planning, significant investment, and consideration of climate change impacts to ensure reliable water availability for both residents and industries.
New filing stirs #GreatSaltLake fears as giant #Utah #DataCenter comes into view, eyes water needs
by Jennifer Green
Thu, May 21, 2026
"A new #WaterRights filing tied to a proposed #MegaDatacenter in northern Utah is renewing fears about the future of the Great Salt Lake, just as new renderings offer the clearest look yet at what the massive development could become.
"What's happening?
"A proposal connected to the #BoxElderCounty data center project seeks to transfer 11 acre-feet of water from an unnamed spring in #HanselValley, KSL reported.
"That marks a steep drop from a previous 1,900-acre-foot application that was withdrawn May 7 after prompting around 3,800 protests.
[...]
"The proposal is facing intense scrutiny because the Great Salt Lake is already under strain from long-term water shortages, and data centers can consume huge amounts of both electricity and water.
"Critics worry that even relatively small individual filings could add up over time if the development expands toward its full vision, which includes 7.5 to 9 gigawatts of power-producing capacity."
Read more:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/filing-stirs-great-salt-lake-084000807.html
#WaterIsLife #ThermalPollution
#HeatGeneration #Drought #GreatSaltLake #Environment #EnvironmentalCatastrophe
#UtahPol #Datacenters
#DatacentersSuck #SharkTank
#AISucks
Tribune editorial: The voice of the people has pushed #Utah leaders to stop and think about massive #DataCenter. Keep it up.
This is an issue that has united people across the political spectrum.
By The Salt Lake Tribune Editorial Board
| May 22, 2026
"The fear that a ginormous, water-guzzling, air-befouling, weather-modifying data center planned for Utah’s northwest corner was a done deal seems to be easing just a bit. It’s not hard to see why.
A handful of key state officials are now promising that, before the project actually gets built — if it ever does — the appropriate environmental reviews, with opportunities for public comment, will happen.
"That doesn’t mean that the people who have stood up to what appeared to be a pre-greased mega-project can rest easy. Vigilance and activism are what have worked so far, and will be necessary going forward. As long and exhausting as that process might be.
"It will take a lot of continual public outcry to counterbalance the monied interests pouring campaign contributions into the coffers of Utah Senate President #StuartAdams and other powerful worthies who have been pushing the plan.
"Few Utahns had any inkling that a little-known state agency called the Military Installation Development Authority (#MIDA), which Adams chairs, had put its weight behind the #StratosProject, a proposed data center that would, at full build-out, generate and consume twice as much electricity as the whole state of Utah.
"The Box Elder County Commission had to sign off on the project before the MIDA board could take over all land-use, water, energy, environmental and tax-abatement authority over the 40,000-acre project — immune from any democratic oversight.
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"Despite loud public objections, online and in person, commissioners did exactly that. Given that the land is privately owned, not part of any city and not zoned for any particular use, commissioners argued they really didn’t have the power to stop it.
"But others do."
Read more:
https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/editorial/2026/05/22/tribune-editorial-public-outcry/
#UtahPol #KevinOLeary #WaterConsumption #HeatPollution #ResistDatacenters #WaterIsLife #ThermalPollution #HeatGeneration
#Drought #GreatSaltLake
#Environment #EnvironmentalCatastrophe #Datacenters #DatacentersSuck
#SharkTank #AISucks
“Vigilance and activism are what have worked so far, and will be necessary going forward,” writes The Salt Lake Tribune editorial board. “As long and exhausting as that process might be.”
The 23-Atomic-Bomb Valley: Why #Utah’s #AIDataCenter Is A #ClimateDisaster In The Making
by Rex Freiberger
Wed, May 20, 2026 at 11:18 AM EDT
"Your state might be next. Utah counties just approved a data center so massive it would consume more power than the entire state currently uses, dump the heat equivalent of 23 atomic bombs daily into high desert, and potentially increase local #carbon emissions by 55%. Welcome to the #StratosProject—#KevinOLeary’s 40,000-acre bet that #AI supremacy trumps everything else."
[...]
"Utah State University physicist Robert Davies calculated #Stratos would dump 16 gigawatts of #ThermalLoad into the surrounding valley—energy equivalent to 23 Hiroshima-scale atomic bombs worth of #heat every single day. You’re trying to cool massive server farms by blowing hot desert air over hot radiators, Davies notes, which doesn’t work well in high-altitude, arid conditions.
"His projections show daytime temperatures rising 2-5°F and nighttime temperatures jumping 8-12°F across the region. #Desert #ecosystems depend on #NighttimeCooling to generate life-sustaining #condensation. Lose that temperature drop, and you’ve fundamentally altered how plants and animals survive in an already stressed #GreatSaltLakeWatershed."
Read more:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/23-atomic-bomb-valley-why-151828961.html
#Utah #WaterIsLife #ThermalPollution #HeatGeneration #Drought #GreatSaltLake #Environment #EnvironmentalCatastrophe #UtahPol #Datacenters #DatacentersSuck #SharkTank #AISucks
But keep building those #Datacenters!
#StateOfEmergency declared for #Utah drought after 'no-pack' winter
After a winter with record low #snowpack, and continued dry weather since, the governor of Utah has declared a state of emergency because of the #drought.
By Jesse Ferrell, AccuWeather meteorologist
Published May 22, 2026
"The governor of Utah declared a state of emergency Thursday as worsening drought threatens a broader water crisis affecting public safety, agriculture, power generation, ecosystems and daily life.
#ClimateEmergency #USPol #DatacentersSuck #WaterIsLife #UtahWx
Low Arkansas River flows have Colorado rafting outfitters, communities bracing for a rocky summer
A recreational flow program usually funnels 10,000 acre-feet of water through the most rafted stretch of whitewater in the country. This year: zero.
#drought #rafting #Colorado #ArkansasRiver
https://coloradosun.com/2026/05/22/arkansas-river-rafting-low-flows/
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