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The tech industry’s soaring electricity and water demands are raising consumer rates and threatening sustainability goals.

Texas Republicans want Trump to punish Mexico for missing water deadline

by Berenice Garcia, Texas Tribune

October 26, 2025

The citrus industry is at risk, farmers say, after Mexico failed to deliver water it owes Texas as part of a 1944 treaty. Now Republicans want Trump to punish Mexico.

Des moines river in iowa could be affected by the change to the clean water act

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Bill amending Clean Water Act could mean dirtier water—Especially in Iowa

by Anika Jane Beamer, Inside Climate News

September 9, 2025

Residents fear the change to the Clean Water Act would worsen the state’s already poor water quality, while reducing red tape and cutting costs for industries.

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Settlement reached in Texas, New Mexico Rio Grande water dispute

by Martha Pskowski, Inside Climate News

August 30, 2025

In a statement, the El Paso Water Improvement District No. 1 said that the Rio Grande water settlement will improve efficiency, conserve scarce water resources and ensure that water is available for the district’s farmers and the city.

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An Oregon wood treater kept polluting a town’s water source with a now-banned chemical — but regulators didn’t stop it

by Kaylee Tornay, InvestigateWest

August 28, 2025

Nearby tribe calls on state, federal agencies to end a “decade-long pattern of reckless violations”

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Oil Companies Want to Sell Their Wastewater. Texas Supreme Court Decided Who Gets Profits.

by Martha Pskowski, Inside Climate News

July 3, 2025

The ruling comes as more companies are seeking to turn a profit on what has long been considered a vexing waste stream.

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New study shows huge groundwater losses along Colorado River

by Alex Hager, KUNC

June 8, 2025

The research highlights the groundwater issues complicating the Colorado River's already strained water supply.

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Oil Companies Want Protection as Texas Considers Allowing Treated Fracking Water Released Into Rivers

by Carlos Nogueras Ramos

May 19, 2025

As the state grapples with a threatened water supply, industry and lawmakers have invested millions in research to clean the toxic backwash for use in for agriculture.

Woman with freedom20 anti-woke water for conservatives

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Water is water… Right? Wrong! Freedom20 is Anti-Woke Water

by Serena Zehlius, Editor

September 7, 2024

Freedom Water. another product to the list of” Patriot” companies grifting off of the racism, bigotry, and love of “freedom” that is the Republican party under Trump.

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As the Rio Grande runs dry, South Texas cities look to alternatives for water

by Serena Zehlius, Editor

July 28, 2024

The Rio Grande is no longer a reliable source of water for South Texas. Water levels at the international reservoirs that feed into the river remain dangerously low.

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In war-torn Syria, efforts to save a river refuse to die

by Serena Zehlius, Editor

July 8, 2024

In 2019, farmers say the flow to Ghouta was cut off. Years of overuse, pollution and drought had narrowed it to a waste-filled trickle.

Mississippi national guard soldiers distributes water at the metrocenter mall in jackson, mississippi, sept. 2, 2022. Nearly 20,000 cars received water on the first day of the operation, consisting of seven sites through jackson for people to collect bottled water, hand sanitizer and non-potable water from water buffalo trucks.

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A Pot of Unspent Federal Money Could Have Prevented Jackson’s Water Crisis

by Lylla Younes

May 27, 2024

Contrary to EPA’s report, a new report by researchers at the Project for Government Oversight, showed that Mississippi’s capital was one heavy rainfall away from a public health crisis.