Summer 2024: The Industrial Water Use Issue

The Industrial Water Use Issue - Powering Forward

From electrical generation to beer brewing, mining, oil and gas drilling, and even computing and data storage — industry in Colorado runs, in part, on water. As consumers’ sustainability demands rise, regulations tighten, and water supplies become more stretched and stressed, industrial water users are innovating to use and clean up the state’s water resources in ways that protect their product, profits
and future. Are they doing enough? View a flipbook of the issue or read articles below.

Winds of Change

July 2024 by Allen Best

As Colorado’s power system transforms to eliminate greenhouse gas emissions, what will become of the water once used to cool coal-fired power plants? The future of electricity, though still uncertain, could mean dividends for water.

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What’s Booming? Water Protections For Oil and Gas
by Elizabeth Miller
As the oil and gas industry makes strides to better stretch and protect water resources, and regulations come online to protect public health and the environment, watchdogs remain skeptical.
Beyond Forever
by Elizabeth Miller
Colorado’s crackdown on “forever chemicals.”
Amped Up
by Allen Best
Data centers are surging with the rise of AI, but could these networked computer servers stress Colorado’s power grid and water resources?
Dig This
by Elizabeth Miller
Regulations aim to protect Coloradans from mining impacts.
Fight For The Right
by Shannon Mullane
The Shoshone hydropower plant's water rights could give the Colorado River a big boost and become the largest, most influential environmental water right in state history.

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