Courtesy of China Water Risk, an interesting look at three cases of how the watergy and food nexus in Central Asia, South Asia & the Mekong Region, all facing significant water issues, can be analyzed: Scarcity in one factor in the Water-Energy-Food security (WEF) nexus directly affects the other factors; the WEF nexus approach can alleviate […]
Read more »Courtesy of Yale’s e360, a look at how – after decades of slow progress – desalination is increasingly being used to provide drinking water around the globe, despite its heavy energy footprint: Some 30 miles north of San Diego, along the Pacific Coast, sits the Claude “Bud” Lewis Carlsbad Desalination Plant, the largest effort to […]
Read more »Via Mongabay, a look at the suggestion that accelerating the deployment of non-hydropower renewable energy could prevent the fragmentation of nearly 165,000 kilometers (more than 102,500 miles) of river channels: In a comment article published in the Nature last month, scientists argue that an “energy future in which both people and rivers thrive” is possible with better planning. […]
Read more »Via Future Directions International, a report on the watergy nexus in East Africa: A drop in water levels in Ethiopian dams has led to electricity rationing in its domestic and industrial sectors, according to the Minister for Water and Electricity, Seleshi Bekele. The water shortage has led to a power deficit of 476 megawatts at the […]
Read more »Via EurekAlert, an article on the watergy nexus: Two papers by Michigan State University (MSU) scientists begin challenging a more simplistic, input/output view of natural resources in favor of a way that better reflected how the world really works. That these natural resources don’t just flow or gush down pipelines. That sometimes energy whisks across […]
Read more »Courtesy of Circle of Blue, a report on how producing oil produces even more water and getting rid of it is a large and expanding business: Producing oil produces even more water: two to five barrels of water for every barrel of fracked oil Produced water, as the industry calls it, is a noxious mix, a […]
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