Archive for May, 2023

Watergy Impact Of Lower Basin States’ Colorado River Deal
May 30th, 2023

Courtesy of The Land Desk, commentary on the watergy impacts of the Lower Basin states’ Colorado River deal: 2. The second point Ann made was that moving water from the Colorado River to fields and cities takes a lot of energy, including the power generated by the dams on the Colorado River. So when irrigators […]

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Colorado Frackers Doubled Freshwater Use During Megadrought
May 23rd, 2023

Via Inside Climate News, a report on how oil and gas operators dramatically increased their reliance on high-quality water for fracking even though they produced enough wastewater to supply their operations: In the middle of the longest-running drought in more than a thousand years, Colorado energy companies diverted rising volumes of the state’s freshwater resources […]

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Aquavoltaics: Will Integrating Solar Into Agriculture Help Solve Water Woes?
May 14th, 2023

Via Big Pivots, a look at Colorado’s exploration of the pairing of solar panels with canals and reservoirs to see if integrating solar into agriculture may help solve the San Luis Valley’s water woes: Agrivoltaics—the marriage of solar photovoltaics and agriculture production— has been filtering into public consciousness, if still more as an abstraction than as […]

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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.”