The Ozark aquifer system is a vital public natural resource spanning Missouri, Arkansas, Kansas, and Oklahoma, providing drinking water, agricultural water, and natural spring systems to millions of residents across these states.   2. The United States Geological Survey (USGS) has documented that the deep aquifer underlying Audrain County, Missouri has already experienced a decline in hydraulic head of more than 200 feet since 1900.   3. Missouri currently has 22 documented data center facilities — 7 operating and 13 planned — concentrated along the I-70 corridor overlying this aquifer system. A single medium-sized data center consumes approximately 110 million gallons of water annually. AI-focused data centers consume significantly more. This water is lost through evaporation and does not return to the local watershed.   4. The City of Joplin, Missouri currently faces a documented critical water shortage — the EPA is funding a new reservoir specifically to relieve pressure on the Ozark Aquifer — while simultaneously approving a 540-acre data center development drawing from the same stressed water supply, without adequate public notice or consent.   5. These developments have proceeded without adequate public notice, without comprehensive environmental impact assessments, and without meaningful public consent — in potential violation of the Public Trust Doctrine, Missouri's Reasonable Use Doctrine, the Clean Water Act, and the Safe Drinking Water Act. WE THE UNDERSIGNED CITIZENS HEREBY STATE: The Facts: 1. The Ozark aquifer system is a vital public natural resource spanning Missouri, Arkansas, Kansas, and Oklahoma, providing drinking water, agricultural water, and natural spring systems to millions of residents across these states. 2. The United States Geological Survey (USGS) has documented that the deep aquifer underlying Missouri has already experienced a decline in hydraulic head of more than 200 feet since 1900. 3. Missouri currently has 22 documented data center facilities — 7 operating and 13 planned —with 90 to 91 in total, with most concentrated along the I-70 corridor overlying this aquifer system. A single medium-sized data center consumes approximately 110 million gallons of water annually. AI-focused data centers consume significantly more. This water is lost through evaporation and does not return to the local watershed.   4. The City of Joplin, Missouri currently faces a documented critical water shortage — the EPA is funding a new reservoir specifically to relieve pressure on the Ozark Aquifer — while simultaneously approving a 540-acre data center development drawing from the same stressed water supply, without adequate public notice or consent.   5. These developments have proceeded without adequate public notice, without comprehensive environmental impact assessments, and without meaningful public consent — in potential violation of the Public Trust Doctrine, Missouri's Reasonable Use Doctrine, the Clean Water Act, and the Safe Drinking Water Act.   6. The cumulative impact of large-scale data center water consumption across this connected multi-state aquifer system poses a documented and serious threat to the public water supplies of residents across Missouri, Arkansas, Kansas, and Oklahoma.   We Therefore Demand: 1. An immediate comprehensive assessment of cumulative data center water consumption impacts on the Ozark aquifer system across all affected states. 2. Mandatory water consumption reporting from all data center facilities, with public disclosure of consumption volumes and water sources. 3. Mandatory environmental impact assessments and meaningful public notice and comment periods before any new data center facility is approved that draws from public water supplies or connected aquifer systems. 4. A moratorium on new large-scale data center approvals in communities overlying the Ozark aquifer system until a comprehensive water impact assessment is completed and made public. 5. Full review of existing water withdrawal permits for data center facilities for compliance with the Public Trust Doctrine and Missouri's Reasonable Use Doctrine. 6. Multi-state coordination between Missouri, Arkansas, Kansas, and Oklahoma DNR agencies and the EPA to protect the Ozark aquifer system as a shared public natural resource. 7. Equal application of environmental regulations — the same water consumption and environmental standards that apply to individual residents and small businesses must apply equally to large corporations. No entity may deplete a shared public natural resource for private profit without full public accountability.     SIGNATURES: By signing below, I affirm that I am a resident of a community affected by data center development and/or the Ozark aquifer system, and I support the demands stated above.   Full Name (Print) Signature City / State Date                                                                                                                                                                     Petition organized by citizens of Missouri and its Counties, Copies submitted to Missouri DNR, Missouri Governor's Office, Missouri Legislature, U.S. EPA, and DNR agencies of Arkansas, Kansas, and Oklahoma.