April 21st, 2014
Via Water Online, a brief examination of the potential benefits of co-locating utilities to help address some issues related to the watergy nexus: Try explaining to your children, as I have with mine, that turning on a light is akin to running a faucet. You’ll likely get a confused look, but this is perhaps the […]
Read more »Energy-Water Nexus Around The World And The Missing Link
April 10th, 2014
Via EDF, some quick thoughts on the watergy nexus: The energy-water nexus is gaining traction with diverse stakeholders around the world and it is becoming increasingly clear that we cannot plan for our planet’s future if we do not consider energy and water together. Most recently, the United Nations celebrated World Water Day, launching a […]
Read more »April 2nd, 2014
Via Circle of Blue, a brief summary of some of the world’s most serious watergy crises: Intense national programs designed to meet growing global demand for energy are creating a number of mammoth and dangerous energy production zones. As Circle of Blue and the Wilson Center have reported since 2010 in our Global Choke Point […]
Read more »Watergy Nexus Reaches Crisis Level In Asia
March 31st, 2014
Courtesy of Eurasia Review, a look at the growing watergy crisis in Asia: A coal-linked project in China’s dry Inner Mongolia region has caused a local water table to plunge and a local lake to shrink. In neighboring India, a thermal power plant has been forced to shut down because of severe water shortages. In […]
Read more »March 22nd, 2014
Courtesy of Circle of Blue, some comments on a recent UN report examining the watergy challenge: Even though India’s coal-fired capacity grows by nearly 20,000 megawatts annually, much of the nation still suffers from widespread blackouts. The reason: consumption of electricity is rising more than 10 percent annually, while the domestic coal supply is increasing […]
Read more »Global Energy Thirst Threatens Water Supplies
March 21st, 2014
Via Bloomberg, an article on a recent UN report on the watergy crisis: Energy production will increasingly strain water resources in the coming decades even as more than 1 billion of the planet’s 7 billion people already lack access to both, according to a United Nations report. “There is an increasing potential for serious conflict […]
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