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💧 Lake Mead is one-third full and Arizona is already receiving 18% less Colorado River water than its allocation — every year since 2022 — before a single new semiconductor fab comes online in Tucson
🏗️ TSMC’s Phoenix gigafab will consume 40,000 acre-feet of water annually — 30 times more than the entire Pascua Yaqui Nation’s water supply — while the tribe’s water rights remain legally unresolved after nearly 50 years of federal recognition…