Courtesy of China Water Risk, an interesting look at how floating solar is well-suited to China’s hunger for power and its limited water & land: Water has a unique propensity to never stay in one place for very long. Evaporation is one of its favourite ways to escape. Although the evaporated water ultimately falls again […]
Read more »Via Breaking Energy, an interesting report on Texas’ watergy nexus: It’s been an interesting time for water in Texas. Beyond the incredibly wet and cool spring we’ve been having, Memorial Day saw the second year in a row of record-breaking floods. And a few weeks ago, the Texas Water Development Board(TWDB) asked for comments on the draft […]
Read more »Via the San Diego Union-Tribune, a report on the electricity savings realized during California’s recently mandated water cuts: As debate continues in San Diego County and around the state over how aggressively to conserve water amid a historic drought, a new study finds that cuts in urban water use have saved significant amounts of electricity […]
Read more »Via Future Directions International, a report on the water-energy nexus in the Indian Ocean region: Key Points Water is essential to energy production processes in both the mining of raw materials and in power generation. Energy is required for the extraction, purification, distribution, utilisation and disposal of water. The risks posed by the water-energy nexus […]
Read more »Via China Water Risk, an interesting look at the water tension between global coal power plants and use of water for agriculture, industry, and cities: Highlights The 84% of global water consumption by the coal industry is from coal power plants, mostly from the cooling of power plants, hard coal and lignite mining is responsible for […]
Read more »Courtesy of the New York Times, a detailed look at the watergy crisis currently being faced in Zambia where severe drought magnified by climate change has cut water levels on Lake Kariba, creating electricity shortages.: Even as drought and the effects of climate change grew visible across this land, the Kariba Dam was always a steady, and […]
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