Courtesy of Circle of Blue, a detailed look at the watergy challenges faced by India’s new Prime Minister Narendra Modi: During the nearly 13 years that Modi served as chief minister of Gujarat, before becoming the prime minister, his successes included drastically curtailing the number of hours that manufacturers in India’s premier industrial state went […]
Read more »Via Engerati, commentary on the watergy implications of drought: The water/energy nexus and the ramifications of this closely intertwined relationship, particularly with energy generation, needs to gain awareness beyond policy wonks in the western states of the USA. These previous blogs about California’s water issues and the water/energy nexus provide good background about climate change impacts to water […]
Read more »Courtesy of the Wall Street Journal, a look at the watergy tension in Alabama: A sign near Big Creek Lake, the main source of drinking water for the city of Mobile, Ala. AL.COM/Landov In Mobile, Ala., the water utility spent decades buying 8,000 acres of land to protect drinking water for around 200,000 people. So […]
Read more »Via Future Directions International, a report on the tension between India’s demand for energy and its limited water supply, particularly in light of its shale gas potential: Energy scarcity is among the many challenges confronting India and there is the prospect of it getting worse in the future. The phenomenon of shale energy could put […]
Read more »Via the Environmental Leader, a look at how fracking water wars may be avoided: In some drier locations, the shale gas boom causes conflict among the energy industry, agricultural interests and residents over already-scarce water resources, according to researchers writing in the journal Environmental Science & Technology. According to Regional Variation in Water-Related Impacts of Shale Gas […]
Read more »Via the Asian Development Bank, a look at the water, energy, food nexus: Striking rates of economic growth notwithstanding, 550 million people remain hungry in Asia and the Pacific, 65% of the population has no safe piped water, and more than 600 million people live without electricity. Overcoming these problems requires a combined approach in […]
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