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Cyber warfare is increasingly coming for U.S. water supplies. Water providers in at least seven U.S. states have been targeted by cyberattacks over the past two weeks, according to multiple agencies including the FBI, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). Some officials indicated that as many as a dozen states could have been impacted. The hackers targeted components known as programmable logic controllers, which allow utility providers to manage the flow and even chemical composition of water supplies to the homes and businesses they serve, according to the agencies. In many cases, they...

The map being distributed by Humane Borders and Mexico's Human Rights Commission shows, using semicircles, how far people entering the United States illegally can expect to walk in one, two and three days. The text at bottom center warns people "Don't go!" into Arizona because of insufficient water and says, "It's not worth it!" Circles show where entrants have died, flags are water tanks and stars are rescue beacons. Emergency phone numbers are at lower right; the graph at the top shows the most dangerous months. ...A Tucson human-rights group has teamed up with Mexico's Human Rights Commission to provide...

The Pima County Board of Supervisors voted 4-1 Tuesday to keep paying $25,000 annually for a nonprofit group's effort to use water stations to prevent illegal border crossers from dying in the desert. Republican Ann Day became the first supervisor to oppose the annual payment since the board first approved it in 2001. Day said she's now is questioning whether payments to Humane Borders put the county in conflict with U.S. immigration policy and could encourage illegal immigration. "I feel there is a lot of ambiguity and unanswered questions," Day told the board. After the vote, she said board members...