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WHAT'S NEXT?: The world is depleting its natural resources at an alarming rate due to population growth and over consumption. Increased competition for ever-diminishing food and water resources may amplify socio-economically motivated armed conflicts and causing quests for more efficient resources on and beyond Planet Earth.

• [New] Canada, Venezuela, Brazil, Russia, Australia, and the U.S. have the most renewable water resources in the world, yet every community will have different levels of water resources and will be affected by water stress differently. ClimateCheck
• [New] SpaceX specifically cited droughts, water scarcity, local competition for resources, and regulatory restrictions as potential threats to future growth. IMFOUNDER
• [New] Climate change is a major threat to the small-scale fishing communities, particularly in South Asia, a region characterized by widespread coastlines, extreme population density, and high dependence on marine resources for food, income, and employment. Ocean Acidification
• [New] Three supply risks exist in reality: the instability of India's power infrastructure, the state of its power grid development, and constraints on water resources (water electrolysis requires large amounts of fresh water). note
• [New] In certain water-scarce areas of the country such as California or Arizona, AI might compete for limited water resources with other use cases. Atlantic Council
• [New] The Valuing Water Finance Initiative is a global investor-led effort to engage companies with a large water footprint to value and act on water as a financial risk and make the necessary large-scale changes to better protect freshwater water resources and build business resiliency. Ceres: Sustainability is the bottom line
• [New] Geothermal Power Generation is anticipated to account for 42.3% of the product segment in 2026, while Hydrothermal Resources is expected to remain the leading application with around 48.6% share. FactMr
• [New] The British and Irish Association of Zoos and Aquariums will receive more support to build ark populations of the glutinous snail, while the Freshwater Habitats Trust hopes to use new resources to find locations suited to wild reintroductions. The Guardian
• [New] The Texas Interconnection was deemed at a normal risk level for Summer 2026 due to a 12% jump in anticipated resources for the summer period and a 4.5% decline in projected demand (resulting from updated load modeling and more demand response from large computational loads). GridBeyond
• [New] The constellation, referred to as 'Project Sunrise', is described as a network of spacecraft that will perform advanced computation in orbit to ease mounting pressure on U.S. communities and natural resources by shifting energy - and water-intensive compute away from terrestrial data centers. Fieldfisher
• [New] The extraction of natural aggregates, which make up nearly 70% of concrete volume, is accelerating the depletion of natural resources, with reserves projected to reach 55 billion tons by 2030. AZoBuild

Last updated: 10 June 2026