Via Oil Gas Daily, a report on how replacing coal with gas or renewables saves billions of gallons of water: The ongoing transition from coal to natural gas and renewables in the U.S. electricity sector is dramatically reducing the industry’s water use, a new Duke University study finds. “While most attention has been focused on […]
Read more »Courtesy of The New York Times, a detailed look at desalination: Desalinated seawater is the lifeblood of Saudi Arabia, no more so than at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, an international research center that rose from the dry, empty desert a decade ago. Produced from water from the adjacent Red Sea that is forced through […]
Read more »Via World Resources Institute, a report on the impact of water shortages on power production and utilities’ bottom lines: On July 5, 2015, the first of six thermal power generation units at the Parli Thermal Power Station in Maharashtra, India shut down. Unable to draw enough water from the nearby Majalgaon dam, which had nearly run […]
Read more »Via Future Directions International, a look at the impact the hydropower boom in Laos may have upon regional water and food security: In September, it was announced that the government of Laos had informed the Mekong River Commission (MRC) that it plans to build a new hydroelectric dam in Luang Prabang. The dam will be the fifth large […]
Read more »Via Terra Daily, a report on planned power plants in Asia that are likely to face water shortages: Climate activists have raised concerns about the number of power plants planned for development in Asia, but the threat of climate change appears to be just one reason to think twice about building new power plants in […]
Read more »Via China Dialogue, a look at how a big gamble on multiple Chinese-financed dams has landed Ecuador with a debt problem: Ecuador’s construction of large Chinese-financed hydropower plants over the past decade was expected to rid the country of power shortages and provide surplus power for export to neighbouring countries. But delays, accidents and high costs […]
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