Archive for June, 2011

FOIA Lawsuit Seeks Release of U.S. Department of Energy’s ‘Water-Energy Roadmap’
June 30th, 2011

Courtesy of Circle of Blue, an interesting article tracking the Energy Department’s unusual unwillingness to disclose the National Energy-Water Roadmap.  As the report notes: “…A lawsuit filed this week in Federal District Court in Washington, D.C. accuses the U.S. Department of Energy of withholding a crucial study on how to solve the national confrontation between […]

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Power and Water Collide
June 23rd, 2011

Via EcoCentric, an interesting article on the increasing impact on water by power generation assets in the United States: The power industry has a water addiction, and worse yet, it’s in denial about it.  The unmistakable fact is that power plants are responsible for 49 percent of all water withdrawals in the United States, more […]

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About This Blog And Its Author
As the scarcity of water and energy continues to grow, the linkage between these two critical resources will become more defined and even more acute in the months ahead.  This blog is committed to analyzing and referencing articles, reports, and interviews that can help unlock the nascent, complex and expanding linkages between water and energy -- The Watergy Nexus -- and will endeavor to provide a central clearinghouse for insightful articles and comments for all to consider.

Educated at Yale University (Bachelor of Arts - History) and Harvard (Master in Public Policy - International Development), Monty Simus has held a lifelong interest in environmental and conservation issues, primarily as they relate to freshwater scarcity, renewable energy, and national park policy.  Working from a water-scarce base in Las Vegas with his wife and son, he is the founder of Water Politics, an organization dedicated to the identification and analysis of geopolitical water issues arising from the world’s growing and vast water deficits, and is also a co-founder of SmartMarkets, an eco-preneurial venture that applies web 2.0 technology and online social networking innovations to motivate energy & water conservation.  He previously worked for an independent power producer in Central Asia; co-authored an article appearing in the Summer 2010 issue of the Tulane Environmental Law Journal, titled: “The Water Ethic: The Inexorable Birth Of A Certain Alienable Right”; and authored an article appearing in the inaugural issue of Johns Hopkins University's Global Water Magazine in July 2010 titled: “H2Own: The Water Ethic and an Equitable Market for the Exchange of Individual Water Efficiency Credits.”