Behind Amazon's plan to restore four billion litres of water

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At the confluence of the Umatilla and Columbia rivers in eastern Oregon, water winds through the town of Umatilla's neighborhoods. An irrigation canal is fed by cleansed cooling water straight from a nearby AWS data centre. The water is used to grow the corn, soybeans, and wheat for which the region is famous / Credit: Amazon/Noah Berger
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At the confluence of the Umatilla and Columbia rivers in eastern Oregon, water winds through the town of Umatilla's neighborhoods. An irrigation canal is fed by cleansed cooling water straight from a nearby AWS data centre. The water is used to grow the corn, soybeans, and wheat for which the region is famous / Credit: Amazon/Noah Berger

Amazon is investing in 13 international water restoration projects in a quest to become 'water positive' by 2030

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