Did you even think how much #water are you using when you’re playing with #chatgpt ?

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/just-five-chatgpt-queries-can-use-16oz-of-water-say-researchers

World map of the irrigated areas based on the data of Meier et al. (2018) processed to display with Equal Earth projection at 800m resolution, licensed under CC-BY-NC-3.0 #water

https://labo.obs-mip.fr/multitemp/global-map-of-irrigated-areas/

Subsidence, long fissures, deeper bore holes are just a few of the effects from #groundwater depletion. #water #drought #aridification https://www.sciencealert.com/giant-cracks-emerging-across-us-southwest-scientists-warn

Orbiting the cool #DwarfStar K2-18, the exoplanet, 2.6 times the radius of #Earth, lies in what #Nasa calls the habitable zone, a region around a star where planets with liquid #water may be present.

Nasa says distant #exoplanet could have rare #WaterOcean and possible hint of life | Nasa | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/sep/11/nasa-planet-ocean-life-james-webb-telescope

Artificial intelligence technology behind ChatGPT was built in Iowa — with a lot of water | AP News

https://apnews.com/article/chatgpt-gpt4-iowa-ai-water-consumption-microsoft-f551fde98083d17a7e8d904f8be822c4 #water #ai #conservation #gluttony #facts

Yes, of course there will be losses to make up. No closed system, really, at that scale.

Or are the horrid data center #water consumption numbers WITH reuse of cooling water? There's an unhappy thought.

I don't really understand the numbers involved, but do any data centers reuse the cooling system #water? At a certain point, it has to make more sense to cool and reuse water than to just use more and more from the municipal supply. Depending on where you are, I suppose.

I hate the idea that these stupid #AI tools are contributing to droughts as well as rolling #blackouts just so some jackass doesn't have to write his own term paper.

Gizmodo: Microsoft Is Using a Hell of a Lot of Water to Flood the World With AI https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-water-usage-ai-iowa-data-center-1850826419 #heatingventilationandairconditioning #artificialintelligence #distributeddatastorage #desmoineswaterworks #technologyinternet #datamanagement #cloudstorage #environment #datacenter #microsoft #openai #google #water #iowa

Coalition For The Poudre River Watershed [Northern Colorado]
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https://www.poudrewatershed.org/ <-- link to their page
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https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/c9eac99fff4e4ef18ebaac101ad9a005/ <-- web map
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“CPRW partners with landowners, government agencies, water utilities, and non-profits to collaboratively address some of the most challenging issues facing our watershed. Together, we identify the biggest problems, use science and expert input to prioritize where our projects will have the most impact and then together, we implement actions on the ground that will protect our rivers, communities, and water supply…”
#GIS #spatial #mapping #webmap #watershed #ecosystem #communityengagement #PoudreRiver #Colorado #NoCo #water #hydrology #volunteer #erosion #wildlife #rivers #forests #communityoutreach #wildfire #fire #CameronPeakFire #recovery #mitigation #ecosystemrestoration #ecosystembuilding #waterresources #waterresourcemanagement #watersupply

Drink from a private well? Michigan EGLE will test it for free

from MLive.com
by Garret Ellison

#Michigan #Water

https://www.mlive.com/public-interest/2023/09/drink-from-a-private-well-michigan-egle-will-test-it-for-free.html

Daily upload - Sept 11 - Reflections, Mare Island CA 00650 (2023)

#photography #water #reflections #reeds #nature #naturephotography

After #water, #sand is the world's most used natural resource and it's not being replenished; and how #climatechange is causing #water #pipes to rupture. Those stories and why we should be telling #plastic to fork off in the current newscast of “This Week in Water” from H2O Radio. Soak it in! https://bit.ly/3CzL6tn

Clean #Water, From A #Plant-Based #Filter
https://hackaday.com/2023/09/09/clean-water-from-a-plant-based-filter/

Many nations are embracing #nuclearpower as a #lowcarbon energy generating technology. Meanwhile the massively expensive and as yet unsolved disposal problem of #radioactivewaste threatens all life forms over the long term. The current favoured solution is to bury the high and intermediate level wastes. #fukushima #chernobyl #hanford #sellafield are massively contaminated sites. #water
https://www.governing.com/climate/nuclear-power-could-save-our-air-quality-at-what-cost-to-the-water

#Microsoft #AI #GenerativeAI #Water #WaterConsumption: "In its latest environmental report, Microsoft disclosed that its global water consumption spiked 34% from 2021 to 2022 (to nearly 1.7 billion gallons, or more than 2,500 Olympic-sized swimming pools), a sharp increase compared to previous years that outside researchers tie to its AI research.

“It’s fair to say the majority of the growth is due to AI,” including “its heavy investment in generative AI and partnership with OpenAI,” said Shaolei Ren, a researcher at the University of California, Riverside who has been trying to calculate the environmental impact of generative AI products such as ChatGPT.

In a paper due to be published later this year, Ren’s team estimates ChatGPT gulps up 500 milliliters of water (close to what’s in a 16-ounce water bottle) every time you ask it a series of between 5 to 50 prompts or questions. The range varies depending on where its servers are located and the season. The estimate includes indirect water usage that the companies don’t measure — such as to cool power plants that supply the data centers with electricity."

https://fortune.com/2023/09/09/ai-chatgpt-usage-fuels-spike-in-microsoft-water-consumption/

Stockholm through the morning mist. Beyond the Vasa bridge one can vaguely, to the left, discern the Sedan House of Parliament "Riksdagshuset"). #UrbanLandscape #Urbanphotography #Stockholm #bridge #Vasabron #mist #morning #water #Mälaren #LakeMälaren #BeautifulStockholm

#BBCNews - #Egypt angry as #Ethiopia fills #Nile dam reservoir amid #water row
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-66771155

Three years worth of rain fell in two days in Greece, another manifestation of the intensification of the #climate long predicted by climate scientists. #water risks are among the worst. 💦

https://wapo.st/3sNdlmt

2. "The sheer quantity of chemicals being dumped into the environment is quickly growing. UNEP counted the annual release of toxic chemicals in 2006 at 6 million tons, but Worldometer estimates the current release at 10 million tons—a 67% increase in a little over a decade.
Perhaps the most frightening biological impact of many endocrine-disrupting chemicals is their tendency to alter #DNA expression in ways that can be inherited by subsequent generations. It’s long been known that #environmental factors (#food, #air, #water) can cause genes to be switched off or on, or dial their expression up or down. Sometimes the effects are transgenerational, and continued presence of chemicals in the environment can amplify biological impacts from one generation to the next."

1. "Since the 90s, researchers who are trying to understand the accelerating increase in reproductive problems have focused on endocrine disrupting chemicals. #Endocrine disruptors include:

Phthalates, chemicals used to make #plastics more durable, found in 100s of products—from vinyl flooring to lubricating oils & personal-care products (soaps, shampoos, & bhair sprays)
#Pesticides & herbicides, including glyphosate, the world’s most widely used weed killer
Bisphenol A (BPA) & phenol, common in food storage materials
Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) & brominated flame retardants, used in electronics & building materials
Per- & polyfluoroalkyl substances (#PFAS), “forever chemicals” used as oil & water repellents & coatings for common products including cookware, carpets, & textiles.
PFAS endocrine disrupting chemicals have been found in the remotest locations on the planet, and they contaminate up to half the US #water supply."
#pollution https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/why-2-is-the-most-dangerous-number-no-one-is-talking-about