Water

Congress Has A Responsibility To Reverse Water Crisis It Caused In Puerto Rico

August 11, 2026 Coenia Sanchez, In These Times. Educate! Congress, Infrastructure, Neoliberalism, Puerto Rico, Water

The air in Puerto Rico is thick with the vibrant, unmistakable rhythm of life. Parrots cut bright streaks across the sky from roof to roof, and iguanas bask lazily on the grass. But the more telling sounds of daily life are the water trucks lumbering through neighborhoods — or the hollow, dry hiss of household pipes when the taps give out yet again. Nearly nine years after Hurricane Maria tore through the island, a dangerous myth persists: that Puerto Rico’s ongoing humanitarian crisis is a failure of local resilience or an unavoidable consequence of climate change. This is a lie.

Grassroots Movement Is Resisting Corporate Grab Of Water Systems

August 2, 2026 Francis Madeson, Truthout. Strategize! City Councils, Illinois, Privatization, Water

The road from public ownership of a municipal water system to privatization is a one-way street paved with regret. Once public ownership is lost, it’s a rarity to recover control. Bolingbrook, Illinois, has been trying to for the last 15 years. Missoula, Montana, is one extraordinary success story, but it took sustained public support, political will across administrations, costly decades in the courts, and ultimately hardball tactics like the invocation of eminent domain. In southern Illinois, an ad hoc people’s movement is going after government officials who are trying to smooth-talk residents toward the edge of the privatization bluff.

AI Wants Your Land, Water, Power

July 28, 2026 Robert Hunziker, Counter Punch. Educate! Artificial Intelligence (AI), Data Centers, Noise Pollution, Water

Erin Brockovich is a well-known American consumer advocate who made her name by exposing evidence that Pacific Gas & Electric poisoned groundwater in Hinkley, California (1996) with toxic hexavalent. Now, she’s investigating AI datacenters. AI date centers are everywhere, in every state throughout the land. They are starting to quasi-own American citizens via appropriation of resources, both human and natural. This is an invasion of the land, the water, the power, the intellectual resources of America. Erin Brockovich was recently interviewed about her commitment to investigating AI development by Katie Couric, appearing on YouTube.

US Leaves 10,000 Iranians Without Drinking Water

July 19, 2026 News Desk, The Cradle. Educate! Iran, US Foreign Bases, Wars and Militarism, Water

Around 10,000 people in Iran's Hormozgan province are without drinking water following US strikes on a desalination plant in the coastal village of Bunji, Tasnim News Agency reported on 18 July. The CEO of the Hormozgan Water and Wastewater Company stated that the attack “completely disrupted the supply of drinking water to 20 villages with a population of about 10,000 people." "These villages are facing a water shortage crisis," the official added. The desalination plant was one of multiple targets struck by the US military starting on Friday night, the seventh straight night of airstrikes on Iran since US President Donald Trump declared an end to the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding (MoU).

New York Is Blocking New Data Center Construction

July 19, 2026 Eliana Perozo, Next City. Organize! Artificial Intelligence (AI), Data Center Moratorium, Data Centers, New York (NY), Water

With data centers popping up faster than most people can count, it’s hard to keep track of them. But a recent report from the Pew Research Center shows more than a third of Americans (38%) live within five miles of at least one operational data center. Historically, data centers have been built in more urban areas, but with the popularization of AI, sources show developers are shifting toward building in more rural communities. According to the Pew Research Center, newer data centers are expected to be predominantly built in rural areas. Places that face water droughts and low water supplies could face the most exponential impact as community members suffer from the high demands of water.

Puerto Rico Faces Major Water Crisis

July 4, 2026 Pablo Meriguet, Breakthrough News. Educate! Infrastructure, Neoliberalism, Puerto Rico, Water

Puerto Rico continues to endure a prolonged water supply crisis that has caused enormous hardship and difficulties for the local population. The situation has affected hundreds of thousands of people on an island with a population of just 3.2 million. The crisis began in mid-June when authorities reported a serious leak in one of the pipes of the Superaqueduct, one of the island’s most important water distribution systems. While repair work was underway, two additional outages were identified, affecting more than 100,000 people in San Juan, Bayamón, Guaynabo, Caguas, Juncos, Loíza, and other surrounding areas.

To Protect Its Drinking Water, City Has To Appeal To Oil Regulators

June 30, 2026 Nick Bowlin and Al Shaw, Pro Publica. Resist! Big Oil, Fossil Fuels, Oklahoma, pollution, Water

Down a dirt road in northwest Oklahoma, only a few hundred yards from where the city of Enid draws its drinking water, a company injects the toxic byproduct of oil production deep underground. That close proximity violates a state rule meant to protect public groundwater supplies from oil field wastewater, which can be saltier than the sea and laden with toxic metals. Injection operations are banned within a half-mile of public water wells unless regulators hold a hearing to ensure that such activity will not pollute the water.

How Israel Uses Water As A Weapon Of War From Palestine To Lebanon

June 29, 2026 Fadia Jomaa, Mondoweiss. Educate! Israel, Lebanon, Palestine, Wars and Militarism, Water

Before he could make sense of what happened, Ali Oday Yassin felt the ground beneath him tremble. Yassin owns a roadside rest stop next to Qaraoun Dam, a cornerstone of Lebanon’s water and energy infrastructure. On May 26, Israeli airstrikes hit targets perilously close to the dam, tearing apart adjacent access roads and scattering debris into Lake Qaraoun. Shrapnel hit Yassin’s property, which sits just 200 meters from the dam. “It was a brutal moment. The ground shook under our feet, then the place filled with dust and smoke,” said Yassin, who recalled scrambling to check if everyone was safe.

Native American Tribes Secured Their Rights To Colorado River Water

June 29, 2026 Mark Olalde, Alex Hager and Sharon Chischilly, Pro Publica. Educate! Human Rights, Infrastructure, Native Americans, Southwest, Water

A deal to bring Colorado River water to Native American communities in northern Arizona, where a third of homes lack running water, is being blocked by neighboring states, caught up in a broader battle over how to divide the dwindling river. The largest tribal water rights settlement in U.S. history — the product of decades of negotiations to secure water for the Navajo Nation, Hopi Tribe and San Juan Southern Paiute Tribe — was on the verge of being realized before Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming stepped in to oppose it being codified by Congress.

The Data Center Showdown In Lackawanna County

June 16, 2026 Dave Rollo, Resilience. Strategize! Artificial Intelligence (AI), Data Centers, Electricity, Pennsylvania, Water

As the artificial intelligence (AI) boom explodes with a race for ever more powerful models, so does the need for its infrastructure. This takes the form of huge, windowless buildings housing thousands of data servers. Projects may involve numerous buildings—sometimes a dozen or more—with added infrastructure such as hundreds of backup generators. These amalgamations are termed data centers or, in some cases as an indication of their enormity, “hyperscale data centers.” Over 4,000 data centers have been built or are under construction in the United States, with corporations seeking approval for thousands more.

Wake Up And Face The Heat!

June 14, 2026 Robert Hunziker, Counter Punch. Educate! climate crisis, Data Centers, Drought, Fossil Fuels, Water

America has never been so dry, so thirsty, yet so committed to fossil fuels and CO2-engineered heat as in the years 2025-2026. “Co2 Levels Hit Highest Ever Recorded, WMO Says, Warning of More Extreme Weather,” Reuters, Oct. 15, 2025. This has all the earmarks of a bad ending. Moreover, according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), effective May 28, 2026: “The world is already smashing heat records. It’s expected to get hotter.” Our anthropogenic planet has become a virtual “heat machine.” This puts datacenters smack dab in the center of attention as “heat machines” in their own right.

The Battle Of Socorro, New Mexico And Uprising Against AI Data Centers

June 11, 2026 Kent Paterson, Counter Punch. Resist! Artificial Intelligence, Data Centers, Environment, New Mexico, Water

If there is any place on the map that captures the depth of the global revolt over AI data centers, it might well be little Socorro County, New Mexico. Located astride the Rio Grande and almost smack dab in the center of New Mexico, at first glance, rural Socorro County seems an unlikely center for the rebellion. But at a May town hall, matters of environment and climate change, gaping economic inequality and creeping oligarchy, local land use, legacies of the nuclear weapons age and space exploration, democratic governance and transparency, and then some all boiled over in a lively, memorable meeting fit for the history books.

Pennsylvanians Are Beating Back A Wave Of Water System Privatization

June 8, 2026 Katie Rose Quandt, Truthout. Resist! Infrastructure, Pennsylvania, Privatization, Profiteering, Water

In January, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court blocked the corporate takeover of a public water system in Chester, Pennsylvania. After a nine-year battle, the court ruled that Chester, a town of 33,000 outside Philadelphia, does not have the jurisdiction to sell the local municipal water system to Aqua, a massive company that owns water and sewer systems throughout the state. The ruling came in the wake of major public pushback, with hundreds of residents joining state legislators at public hearings to oppose the sale. Save Chester Water Authority, a grassroots campaign, warned: “In every acquisition it has made, [Aqua] hikes up water bills through rapid-fire rate increases and infrastructure surcharges.”

Private Water Company Leaves Thousands Dry Amid Heatwave

May 30, 2026 Cameron Baillie, The Canary. Educate! Global heating, Privatization, United Kingdom (UK), Water

One privately-owned water company left thousands of people in south-east England dry and thirsty this week. This comes amid one of Britain’s hottest-ever May heatwaves. South East Water, which covers much of Kent, left over 8,000 people without any tap water. The company claimed that nearby reservoirs at Whitstable were at a “critical level” due to “extremely high demand”. The company’s six-figure CEO David Hinton stepped down from his position in early May over consistent failures, shortages and outages but will remain in-post to allow an orderly transition over the summer period. That and, presumably, to keep earning a slice of his lucrative £457,000 salary a wee bit longer.

What’s Missing In Cities’ Climate Resilience Interventions?

May 10, 2026 Aysha Khan, Next City. Create! Biodiversity, climate crisis, Green Transition, Urban Design, Water

Cities are under growing pressure to green their infrastructure, manage stormwater, and reverse ecological decline, all at once. Three studies published in recent weeks offer useful, if sometimes sobering, evidence on where progress is being made and where the gaps remain. The research spans three distinct interventions — household-level stormwater management in coastal cities, the ecological performance of urban green alleys, and the role of urban planners in freshwater conservation — but all conclude by pointing to a consistent theme.

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