In the United States, Floating Solar panels systems are beginning to boom after rapid growth in Asia. They're attractive not just for their clean power and lack of a land footprint, but because they also conserve water by preventing evaporation. A study published in the journal Nature Sustainability in March found that thousands of cities - more than 6,000 in 124 countries - could generate an amount equal to all their electricity demand using floating solar, making it a climate solution to be taken seriously. In the process, they could save roughly enough water each year to fill 40 million Olympic-sized swimming pools.

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