Courtesy of the Circle of Blue, a detailed look at water required to develop New Mexico’s Permian basin: Deep beneath the desert that surrounds this oil boomtown is a fossil fuel bounty of staggering riches reachable only by penetrating vulnerable beds of porous limestone and soluble salt at considerable environmental and public risk. Carlsbad is […]
Read more »Via The Conversation, an article on the increasing reliance of Australian cities on desalination to supply drinking water: Removing salts and other impurities from water is really difficult. For thousands of years people, including Aristotle, tried to make fresh water from sea water. In the 21st century, advances in desalination technology mean water authorities in Australia […]
Read more »Via Desmog, a look at new analysis revealing that we have much less water in our aquifers than previously thought — and the oil and gas industry could put that at even greater risk: We’re living beyond our means when it comes to groundwater. That’s probably not news to everyone, but new research suggests that, deep […]
Read more »Via Business Daily Africa, a report on the solar energy/water nexus in some developing countries: Stooped over knee-high rows of green gram plants at her farm in eastern Kenya, Grace Kaari hums to herself as she slices out weeds with a blunt machete. Two years ago, Kaari would not have had time to tend her […]
Read more »Via East Asia Forum, a look at the potential for hydropower to help bring Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, and Nepal closer together via transnational hydroelectric projects in the Ganges–Brahmaputra–Meghna Basin: South Asia is the world’s most energy and water scarce region per capita. There is an urgent need to consider more ecologically and economically efficient ways of […]
Read more »Via Yale’s Center for Busienss and Environment, a report on undergroung watergy: Why hasn’t saving water as a way of saving energy had its day in the sun yet in the United States? At Horizon18 in Boston on Oct. 11, speakers at the session “Smart Water Solutions and the Energy-Water Nexus” reflected on the sparkle […]
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