Water Custody Now: Take It. Clean It. Return It.

Why it surfaced

The campaign turns a sprawling data-center water debate into a crisp physical rule: volume parity, quality parity, thermal parity, and real-time accountability. Its rejection of evaporation credits and distant offsets gives the argument a memorable shape, while linked sources and cooling examples make the proposal unusually auditable.

A proposed public-interest standard asking data centers to return every gallon of locally withdrawn freshwater as certified clean liquid water.