Via EDF’s Energy Exchange blog, some helpful clarification on water and energy terms: In recent posts I’ve discussed the need for energy and water planners to co-manage resources more comprehensively. But another significant barrier exists: language. Water and energy planners use different terminology and a lack of understanding for these distinctions hampers true coordination. Also, […]
Read more »Courtesy IndustryTap, a look at China’s engery industry water use: IndustryTap has covered the world’s looming water shortage problem usually considering its deleterious effects on humans. We have looked at desalination, “mining” icebergs, and more. But water shortages also affect critical infrastructure and systems humans depend on, such as coal plants that require vast amounts […]
Read more »Via EDF’s Energy Exchange blog, an article on the power of local watergy solutions: Over the past several weeks, I’ve written a lot about the intimate and inextricable connection between energy and water. The energy-water nexus involves a number of technologies, environmental factors and stakeholders. Thus, it’s no surprise that water and energy’s fundamental connection has eluded […]
Read more »Via Circle of Blue, a report discussin how few places in the United States better understand the economically essential and ecologically risky accord between energy and water than the Ohio River valley: Shale development in North Dakota. Few places in the United States better understand the economically essential and ecologically risky accord between energy and […]
Read more »Via The Albuquerque Journal, an article on the watergy implications of New Mexico’s fracking industry: The growth in hydraulic fracturing to expand oil and gas production in New Mexico is raising fresh questions about the amount of the state’s scarce water needed to carry out the task, state legislators said Thursday. But a three-hour hearing […]
Read more »Via the Union of Concerned Scientists, a report on the watergy nexus of power plants: A new study about declining aquifers in the Great Plains focuses on the agricultural sector’s water use, as it should. But water-smart power choices can help, too, by cutting electric-sector pressure on precious groundwater resources. This post is part of […]
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