Amazon announces new water replenishment projects in South America,China and US

But questions remain on the impact of datacentres in water-stressed regions

Penny Horwood
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Workers on irrigation project in Chile: Credit: AWS
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Workers on irrigation project in Chile: Credit: AWS

Amazon has announced six new AWS water replenishment projects focused on high-risk areas in the US, South America, and China. Whilst the projects will return billions of litres of water annually, Amazon remains opaque on the extent of its overall water take.

The projects are run in conjunction with local non-profit organisations and are due to return approximately seven billion litres of clean water every year when added to the 15 water replenishment p...

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