By Duncan Wood In early August 2025, Mexican oil company Pemex made a quiet announcement with loud implications: the state-owned enterprise will focus on unconventional oil and gas fields, which ultimately means that President Sheinbaum is authorizing the use of hydraulic fracturing—better known as fracking. Under her predecessor, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, fracking was all […] The post Mexico’s Fracking Reboot: A Critical First Step—but Only the Beginning appeared first on Circle...| Circle of Blue
In the last decade, the U.S. electric power sector turned away from coal to embrace wind turbines and solar panels, two energy generating sources that require little water for operations and cooling. Together with the installation of more water-efficient natural gas-fired power plants, the energy shift has been a net benefit for the country’s water […] The post Data Center Energy Demand Is Putting Pressure on U.S. Water Supplies appeared first on Circle of Blue.| Circle of Blue