# Arkansas Water Plan 2026 Demand and Supply Draft `AWP_Demand-and-Supply_2.25.26.pdf` — an 82-page draft presentation, *"WATER FOR ARKANSAS — 2026 Update — Draft Water Demand and Water Supply Analyses,"* produced by the Arkansas Department of Agriculture as part of the data-center FOIA production. It is the generic statewide water-planning document the Department also linked publicly in its production email (alongside a YouTube recording of the Water Supply and Demand Stakeholder presentation). ## What's inside The Arkansas Water Plan is the state's *"comprehensive program for the orderly development and management of the state's water and related land resources"* (Ark. Code § 15-22-503(a); `AWP_Demand-and-Supply_2.25.26.pdf`, p. 4). The deck traces the plan's history (first published 1975; updates in 1990 and 2014; the Natural Resources Commission was moved into the Department of Agriculture under the 2019 Transformation and Efficiencies Act) and presents the 2026 update's draft demand and supply analyses by basin and region. Every page is marked *"Provisional Information and Data; Subject to Change."* ## Key takeaways - This is **context, not a facility-specific record.** Unlike the rest of the production, the AWP draft is a general statewide planning document and does not address any individual data center. - It is useful as a baseline for the investigation's water thread — statewide demand-and-supply framing against which data-center cooling withdrawals (see [[Data-Center Cooling-Water Regulatory Correspondence]]) can be assessed. - The Department's inclusion of this draft, plus a YouTube link and the public Arkansas Water Plan stakeholder page, in a FOIA production otherwise made up of facility-specific records is itself notable — it is the one generic item among ten. ## People and orgs mentioned - [[Arkansas Department of Agriculture]] — Natural Resources Division; maintains the Arkansas Water Plan. ## Concepts invoked - [[Water-Use Registration]] — water-use registrations are the data source the Water Plan uses to estimate statewide demand. ## Events documented - [[2026-05 Department of Agriculture FOIA Response]] ## Cross-references - See [[Data-Center Cooling-Water Regulatory Correspondence]] for the facility-specific water-demand figures (4.32 MGD Sparta; "hundreds of thousands to millions of gallons per day"). ## Open questions / follow-ups - Whether the draft 2026 Arkansas Water Plan demand analysis incorporates the announced hyperscale data-center load is not established from this deck alone; the full draft (and the basin-level analyses) would need review.