The Bureau of Reclamation is looking to artificial intelligence to better answer one of the most pressing questions in the West: How much water is available? Upstream Tech recently signed a $680,000 contract with the Interior Department to improve what are known as “short-term probabilistic forecasts,” or estimates for how much water will flow from streams and rivers into reservoirs over a 10-day period. The company will use a machine-learning model, a subset of AI, to boost the accuracy and scope of water models.