August 15th, 2019
Via Third Pole.net, commentary on run-of-river hydropower facilities in the Himalaya: The floods in Assam and Bihar and the cloudburst in Chamoli district of Uttarakhand have all once again underlined the risk of developing hydropower in the Himalayas. On top of that, over the last few years increasing evidence has emerged that hydropower production may […]
Read more »Permian Needs $9 Billion Worth of New Wells—But Not for Crude
July 30th, 2019
Via Bloomberg, a report on fracking’s significant watergy impact in the United States’ Permian Basin: As much as $9 billion will be needed over the next decade just to throw away dirty water in the world’s busiest shale field, according to Raymond James & Associates Inc. The scale of the challenge is mind-boggling: drillers typically […]
Read more »July 29th, 2019
Via Mongabay, a report on the controversial 2,880-megawatt Dibang hydropower project in the northeastern state of Arunachal Pradesh, believed to be the largest hydroelectric project and highest dam to be constructed in India: India’s hydropower sector has come back into focus with the government clearing the path for the controversial, large-scale Dibang hydropower project in […]
Read more »Water-Energy-Food Security Nexus In Asia’s Large River Basins
July 18th, 2019
Courtesy of China Water Risk, an interesting look at three cases of how the watergy and food nexus in Central Asia, South Asia & the Mekong Region, all facing significant water issues, can be analyzed: Scarcity in one factor in the Water-Energy-Food security (WEF) nexus directly affects the other factors; the WEF nexus approach can alleviate […]
Read more »June 26th, 2019
Courtesy of Yale’s e360, a look at how – after decades of slow progress – desalination is increasingly being used to provide drinking water around the globe, despite its heavy energy footprint: Some 30 miles north of San Diego, along the Pacific Coast, sits the Claude “Bud” Lewis Carlsbad Desalination Plant, the largest effort to […]
Read more »No Need To Dam Rivers To Meet World’s Climate And Energy Targets
June 6th, 2019
Via Mongabay, a look at the suggestion that accelerating the deployment of non-hydropower renewable energy could prevent the fragmentation of nearly 165,000 kilometers (more than 102,500 miles) of river channels: In a comment article published in the Nature last month, scientists argue that an “energy future in which both people and rivers thrive” is possible with better planning. […]
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