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Quick breakdown for anyone who's been following Project Blue but didn't catch the May 4 letter.

Tucson Water had issued a temporary construction-water meter to Ames Construction for use at the Project Blue site. Ames picked it up on April 24 and used it for dust control. A resident raised the question with a Ward 4 staffer, and on May 4, Tucson City Manager Tim Thomure's letter pulled the meter and told Beale Infrastructure to "make Tucson's water supply whole" by handing back 2 acre-feet (about 650,000 gallons) of water credits.

What I don't think comes through in most of the national coverage: Thomure didn't need a Council vote to do this.

Council already unanimously rejected Project Blue last year. The site sits in unincorporated Pima County, past city limits in the Houghton/Vail direction, outside Tucson Water's authorized service area. That construction meter was a one-off Tucson never had to issue in the first place, which means it's a one-off the City Manager could revoke without going back to Council. The May 4 letter is the cleanup pass on a decision Council had already made.

Side note on how I got here: I keep a small dataset of US AI data centers and the water utilities that serve them. When I tried to add Project Blue this week, the site coordinates fell outside Tucson Water's service area in the data too. Same fact, different form.

One ask for anyone closer to this than I am: does anyone have a confirmed lat/lng for the Project Blue construction site? The Beale filings reference a few different addresses around Houghton and I want to pin the right one down.

Disclosure: I run tapwaterdata.com. Five other facilities I did publish, with methodology and per-resident math, are over there: https://www.tapwaterdata.com/blog/guides/data-center-water-usage

Mods approved me sharing this one time, so here goes.

I run a tap water quality site (TapWaterData) and sometimes I forgot drinking water and sometimes I drink a lot of water but constantly forget to log it. Apple Health's water tracking is just a number field you type into — no widget, no reminder, no nothing. So over the last few months I built what I wanted instead.

Called it Waterd. Free, no ads, iPhone/Watch/iPad. The whole point is you don't open the app — you tap a widget on your home screen or lock screen, or your watch, and it logs. Dynamic Island shows the progress while you're using your phone. No account, no email, no signup. Data stays on your phone, I don't collect anything.

The one thing that's different from WaterLlama/WaterReminder/etc is it shows your local tap water grade by ZIP, pulled from my database. Felt weird that hydration apps tell you to drink more water without telling you anything about the water.

On pricing since I want to be upfront: app is fully free. There's a $1.99/mo or $7.99 lifetime tier that adds Apple Intelligence stuff — natural language logging ("had a coffee and two glasses"), adaptive reminders. All runs on-device. You never need it to track water, get reminders, or see your water quality. The $7.99 one-time exists because I personally hate subscriptions. Also full disclosure: if your water quality grade is bad, the app suggests filters that match your specific contaminants, and some of those links earn me a small commission. I only recommend NSF-certified filters that actually treat what's in your water — I've turned down brands that paid more but didn't have the cert

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/waterd/id6761774902

If you try it, I genuinely want to know what's annoying. Reminders that don't get ignored seems to be the universal hydration app problem and I'm not sure I've cracked it yet.