July 28th, 2017
Courtesy of The New York Times, an interesting look at the Trump administration’s proposal to sell off portions of a vast system that produces nearly half of the nation’s hydropower electricity: To ride down the Columbia River as the John Day Dam’s wall of concrete slowly fills the view from a tugboat is to see […]
Read more »How Water Shortages Cost India Enough Energy to Power Sri Lanka
July 26th, 2017
Via World Resources Institute, an article on how water shortages affect India’s power generation potential: India is making great strides to aggressively expand its renewable energy capacity. But the country’s power sector remains highly reliant on thermoelectric plants, with high demand for water for cooling. That means that droughts, like the one caused last year by weak […]
Read more »July 26th, 2017
Via Ars Technica, a report on the watergy nexus in the European Union: Unless you work at a coal, gas, or nuclear plant, you may not think about water when you think about electricity (certainly at a household level; they don’t mix). But water plays an important part in cooling many power plants, and many power […]
Read more »How Can Cities Reduce Watergy Pressure?
July 23rd, 2017
Via the World Bank’s Water Blog, interesting commentary from Robert Brears on how cities around the world are exploring a variety of technological and management innovations to reduce urban water-energy nexus pressures Cities over the past century have become the driving force of the global economy. Accounting for over half the world’s population and generating around 80% of […]
Read more »July 4th, 2017
Via the World Resources Institute, an article on the watergy nexus: Drought in Kenya and neighboring countries became so severe earlier this year that the government of Kenya declared a national disaster. Already, the effects have been devastating: Food production dropped, leaving more than 2.6 million people without access to sufficient food. Some villagers have […]
Read more »The Parched Tiger: Sewage Water Won’t Solve India’s Coal Power’s Drought Problem
June 20th, 2017
Via Greenpeace, details on a recent report the potential for sewage water to help solve India’s coal power’s drought problem: The use of sewage to meet coal power plants’ cooling needs will not resolve the conflict over water between thermal power plants and farmers and urban communities, said Greenpeace India today, in a report titled ‘Pipe […]
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