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Water-Guzzling Data Centers Are Being Built in the Arizona Desert. That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water.

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Severe drought in the West is increasing the risk of electricity shortages, as water levels needed to generate hydropower fall.

Mesa, Arizona, recently approved a massive new computer data center, which will require over one million gallons of water a day.

Usually mosquitoes are only a summertime nuisance, but a new study shows they might bug us in the spring and fall, too.

Antidepressants in streams and ponds are making crayfish cray-cray.

The Michelin Man has taken up sailing.