Comment by awongh

I think people get emotional when they talk about water, but it's easier when it's broken down into more specific categories-

Every person should have the right to clean easily accessible drinking water in their homes. We know how to do that, it just costs money but it should be a basic responsibility of every government.

Beyond that if you want to use water for whatever then you should have to compete for it in a market. Maybe the only other exception might be growing sustenance food. But those systems (as they are currently implemented across the world) quickly get political- but no one should starve because water is too expensive either.

The thing is that almost all of the time that's not what's at stake when talking about things like data centers- it's a strawman.