May 29th, 2019
Via Future Directions International, a report on the watergy nexus in East Africa: A drop in water levels in Ethiopian dams has led to electricity rationing in its domestic and industrial sectors, according to the Minister for Water and Electricity, Seleshi Bekele. The water shortage has led to a power deficit of 476 megawatts at the […]
Read more »Diving Deep Into Water and Energy Trade-Offs
May 1st, 2019
Via EurekAlert, an article on the watergy nexus: Two papers by Michigan State University (MSU) scientists begin challenging a more simplistic, input/output view of natural resources in favor of a way that better reflected how the world really works. That these natural resources don’t just flow or gush down pipelines. That sometimes energy whisks across […]
Read more »February 15th, 2019
Courtesy of Circle of Blue, a report on how producing oil produces even more water and getting rid of it is a large and expanding business: Producing oil produces even more water: two to five barrels of water for every barrel of fracked oil Produced water, as the industry calls it, is a noxious mix, a […]
Read more »America’s Oil Boom Cannot Happen Without Groundwater
February 15th, 2019
Courtesy of the Circle of Blue, a detailed look at water required to develop New Mexico’s Permian basin: Deep beneath the desert that surrounds this oil boomtown is a fossil fuel bounty of staggering riches reachable only by penetrating vulnerable beds of porous limestone and soluble salt at considerable environmental and public risk. Carlsbad is […]
Read more »February 15th, 2019
Via The Conversation, an article on the increasing reliance of Australian cities on desalination to supply drinking water: Removing salts and other impurities from water is really difficult. For thousands of years people, including Aristotle, tried to make fresh water from sea water. In the 21st century, advances in desalination technology mean water authorities in Australia […]
Read more »A ‘Shrinking Window’ of Usable Groundwater — and the Oil and Gas Industry Isn’t Helping
January 17th, 2019
Via Desmog, a look at new analysis revealing that we have much less water in our aquifers than previously thought — and the oil and gas industry could put that at even greater risk: We’re living beyond our means when it comes to groundwater. That’s probably not news to everyone, but new research suggests that, deep […]
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