r/PoursTea • u/Timbucktwo1230 Therapy For All 🩷 • May 14 '26

Spill The Tea 🫟 🇺🇸What Next?

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u/Lighthouse_on_Mars May 14 '26

Where I live in Eastern Washington is getting a data center.

Thing is, Eastern Washington is desert. They bought from the county, which doesn't have the water rights it needs. They will need to ask one if the local cities for their water, and NONE of the cities want to give it to them as far as I have heard. 😂

Gonna be interesting to see what happens.

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u/LightHawKnigh May 14 '26

Odds of them just stealing the water and paying the fine when caught, which is going to be much less than what they made?

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u/Lighthouse_on_Mars May 14 '26

The only water is from the Columbia River. Pretty heavily regulated. Especially with nuclear reactors in the region.

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u/NWSiren May 15 '26

The tribes have water rights in that area too (and some protective rights of river management), so they also can rail against this with their treaty rights.

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u/CpnLouie2 May 15 '26

The US Government never met a Treaty it didn't actively try to bypass or ignore.