Via The Guardian, a look at the energy and climate costs of watering crops in drought-plagued northern China. As the article notes: A villager looks after a water pump that will irrigate a wheat field in Jimo, Shandong province, China. Photograph: Wu Hong/EPA The irrigation of Chinese farm fields with more water pumped from ever […]
Read more »Courtesy of Triple Pundit, an article on the water energy nexus: Energy and water. Water and energy. Both are critical to human development, and both are strongly interrelated. With few exceptions, water is necessary to generate and distribute energy. In turn, water can’t be collected, purified and transported without energy. A term has even been […]
Read more »Courtesy of Greentech Media, a look at the water-energy nexus and our infrastructure gap: There is a growing gap between the infrastructure we need and the infrastructure we have. For two decades, Wedbush attorney, investment banker, and water industry executive Michael George has watched “the way we think about, use, finance water infrastructure and now […]
Read more »Courtesy of The Design Observer, an interesting look at the watergy nexus in three different locations in the United States: The 1st and 2nd Los Angeles Aqueducts in 2001. [Photo by Jet Lowe for the Historic American Engineering Record] California “Under no contingency does the natural face of Upper California appear susceptible of supporting a […]
Read more »Courtesy of Circle of Blue, a look at the recent U.S. State of the Union address and the reality that – in an era of deficit and disinvestment – water-intensive fossil fuel production is overwhelming the water-sipping clean energy sector. As the article notes: “Four years ago, when he campaigned for the office he now […]
Read more »Via The Harvard Business Review, a short brief on water-food-energy nexus. As the article notes: When we talk about natural resource constraints on business — such as shortages in water or increases in the cost of energy or agricultural products — we tend to forget how deeply intertwined these commodities are. In the business community, […]
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