Via The Saudi Gazette, an interesting article on the impact of the watergy nexus in the Middle East region: The MENA is the world’s most water-scarce region. By 2030, lack of water availability will become a severe constraint to health and socio-economic development in all 17 MENA countries, Frost & Sullivan said in its new […]
Read more »Via IPS News, a report on Mexico’s water constraint on fracking for shale gas: Mexico plans to expand shale gas exploration this year, but it could run into a shortage of water, which is essential to hydraulic fracturing or fracking, the method used to capture natural gas from shale rocks. “In Mexico there isn’t enough […]
Read more »Via Mother Jones, an article on the impact the drought is having upon the ethanol industry: Bill Pracht has bad memories of last summer. “The drought was so bad here that the corn was just decimated,” he recalls of the farm country around Garnett, Kan., where he oversees East Kansas Agri-Energy, an ethanol plant. “Many […]
Read more »Courtesy of GigaOm, a report on China’s watergy crisis: There’s a looming water crisis coming for China’s water-hungry coal plants, according to a new report from Bloomberg New Energy Finance. Roughly sixty percent of China’s power plants (most of them running on coal) are located in Northern China, but only 20 percent of the country’s […]
Read more »Via Greentech Media, a report on the increasing recognition of the watergy challenge: Water and energy production have always been inextricably linked, but the amount of water needed to power our lives is increasing, according to the latest forecast from the International Energy Agency. The role of water in energy, often referred to as the […]
Read more »Courtesy of the Carnegie Endowment, a detailed look at the Central Asian water crisis and the linchpin Tajik energy crisis: In early November 2012, the government of Tajikistan announced that its national budget for 2013 would include 1.2 billion Tajik somoni (over $251 million) for the construction of the controversial Rogun Dam on the Vakhsh […]
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