The Water Report

A recent study highlights the growing difficulty of tracking data center water use. Much of this operational information remains unavailable to the public. This lack of data creates significant planning challenges for communities located in water-scarce regions. Facilities utilize massive amounts of water to cool computer servers. The current data gap includes both direct fac...

A new report from the Neptune Flood Research Group, California Underwater: A Blind Spot in the Golden State, reveals that California carries one of the largest residential flood insurance gaps of any state in the nation, leaving millions of homeowners financially exposed to a threat they may not even know they face. Residential flood insurance coverage in California sits at j...

For anyone who has been forced to evacuate during a wildfire, the experience of not knowing how fast the fire is moving or which direction it will take is terrifying. That unpredictability is exactly what a team of researchers at USC Viterbi's Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering is working to eliminate. The new model, published in the journal Remote Sensing, is...

A new study from researchers at the University of British Columbia, delivers some of the clearest evidence yet that the rhythm of the seasons is fundamentally changing — and faster than scientists previously measured. The study analyzed global temperature data from 1961 through 2023, tracking not the calendar definition of summer, but the actual number of days each year when ...

A new report from a team of water law scholars, engineers, and policy experts argues that the 80-year-old framework governing how the United States delivers Colorado River water to Mexico is no longer fit for purpose — and that a fundamental redesign is both possible and urgent. Since 1945, the US has been obligated under a 1944 treaty to deliver a fixed 1.5 million acre-feet...