While companies focus on efficient water use followed by WASH (water, sanitation and hygiene), ecosystems, and finally water quality, people would prefer them to do the exact opposite with reducing ...

The consequences will be even more catastrophic without urgent action. The water crisis threatens more than 50% of global food production and risks shaving an average of 8% off countries’ GDPs ...

Half of the world’s population already faces water scarcity, and that proportion is growing, too, according to the Global Commission on the Economics of Water, which is funded by the Dutch ...

Right now, 16,876 desalination plants in 177 countries produce enough desalinated water to support up to 972 million people per day, which equates to only 1% of the world’s clean water supply.

Amazon data center in the Portland, Ore., area in 2022. (AWS Photo / Noah Berger) Amazon Web Services is more than halfway to its 2030 goal of being “water positive” — meaning it replenishes ...

With Goldman Sachs forecasting a 165% jump in data-center power capacity by 2030, the vicious cycle among AI's energy demands, heat generation, and water needs is expected to intensify.Why It's an ...

AWS is wringing more water out of its cloud operations, marking a 40% improvement in its water use efficiency over the past three years. And it’s 53% of the way toward becoming water positive ...

They argue the claims are often restricted to agro-processing facilities or bottling sites that typically account for 2-3% of total water use in agri-food. “[…] notions that regenerative ...

Humanity has thrown the global water cycle off balance “for the first time in human history,” fueling a growing water disaster that will wreak havoc on economies, food production and lives ...