This Week's News: Proposed data centers threaten Meramec River, a new statewide app for drought and flooding awareness, the US exempts oil industry from protecting ocean animals, why the boundary waters are no place to experiment with mining, a water crisis in south Texas, shoreline project completed on the Mississippi, why glacial melting could threaten water security, the EPA wants to test for microplastics in drinking water, funds for drinking water system in southeast Missouri town, how forever chemicals have dropped in New Jersey's tap water, new expectations for charter captains at Table Rock Lake, why MDC shocks fish, and Eagle Days bring people together at Missouri's largest reservoir

This Week's Water News: Missouri bill proposed for data center electricity and water use restrictions, a crappie challenge at Lake of the Ozarks and Confluence Trash Bash in St. Louis, 'forever chemicals' in Missouri drinking water, a DNR award to Pilot Grove for wastewater treatment improvement, warning on one Montana river regarding invasive trout, a sheen on the Mississippi River and Minneapolis, fish kills in Florida from fertilizer and in Michigan after harsh winter, using nuclear power to pump water to the Colorado River, and progress being made at Rock Lake Conservation Area in Kirksville