Via Medium, a look at a range of best practices to reduce water-energy-carbon nexus pressures: Abstracting, treating, and conveying water requires significant amounts of energy, most of which is derived from fossil fuels including coal, gas, or natural gas. Energy production from these sources generates carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide. Urban water utilities typically account […]
Read more »Via CNN, a report on the watergy constraints facing the fracking industry: America’s oil industry faces a number of challenges, including low oil prices, the rise of electric vehicles and proposals to limit fracking. But one of its biggest problems: The industry is running out of water. The US oil boom is being driven mostly by the growth of fracking — […]
Read more »Via Connect4Climate, an article on the potential for renewable solutions to reduce the watergy crisis: The water sector is energy-hungry, with energy consumption by the sector equivalent to all the energy used by Australia. In 2014, around 4% of global electricity consumption was used to extract, distribute, and treat water and wastewater as well as […]
Read more »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 […]
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