Via EcoWatch, a slightly different perspective on the water-energy nexus but one interesting enough to share: With Brazil’s historic drought drying up its hydroelectric plants, the South American country is turning to solar power to help relieve its foreboding energy crisis. Brazil’s devastating drought has depleted its reservoirs causing the nation to consider alternative energy options besides hydropower, which […]
Read more »Via the Union for Concerned Scientists, a new report on watergy challenges and opportunities in California: It takes more than snow and rainfall to keep California’s taps flowing; it demands energy and lots of it, particularly during a record-setting drought. The state’s water and wastewater utilities consume large amounts of electricity to pump, treat, transport, […]
Read more »Via Circle of Blue, an interesting article examining India’s run-of-the-river diplomacy and the likelihood of it building more Himalayan dams: With all the immediate distress and hopeful fervor that has greeted Narendra Modi’s new administration, one of the government’s unyielding themes is the prime minister’s allegiance to running water. Specifically, the swift currents that pour from […]
Read more »Via AAAS.org, some commentary on the watergy nexus from Noël M. Bakhtian, the Energy-Water Nexus Lead in the Office of International Affairs at the U.S. Department of Energy: It’s World Water Day. Designated in 1993 by the United Nations General Assembly, March 22 now represents a day to celebrate water. A day to make a difference for the […]
Read more »Courtesy of World Resources Institute, an interesting look at the watergy footprint of China’s power sector: China’s power sector is the nation’s largest source of greenhouse gas emissions and its biggest industrial water user. To meet increasing energy demand, the country may double its installed generation capacity by 2030. As a result, decisions about electricity generation will have profound […]
Read more »Via Third Pole.net, a report on how Narendra Modi’s ambitious solar energy expansion may be scuppered by lack of water, particularly in arid regions where the biggest solar farms are planned: The arid region of Ladakh in the Indian Himalayas aims to produce 100,000 MW of solar power by 2050 Enthusiasm for solar energy has grown […]
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