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 »UN Report: Water And Energy Face Off On An Uneven Playing Field
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 »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 […]
Read more »No Water, No Power: Energy Sector Is Lagging Behind On Water Challenges
March 21st, 2014
Via The Guardian, a report on the A sign in Turlock, California where water scarcity has had a severe effect on energy production, as well as agriculture. All hydro, no power? Yesterday afternoon I made a list. I’d like to share it with you: Alon, Solar Alliance, Eskom, GDF Suez, Iberdrola, Ranhill Berhad, Sasol. Can […]
Read more »February 28th, 2014
From an innovative company called Energy Points, an interesting piece on the watergy connection below: North Carolina in 2007. Brazil in 2012. Texas in 2013. And California right now. What do they have in common? Droughts and heat waves are becoming routine in many parts of the world, and they can pose major challenges for […]
Read more »In Parched States, Fracking’s Thirst Grows
February 20th, 2014
Via the Los Angeles Times, an article on how some residents of Greeley, Colorado worry that as they sell water to the oil and gas companies that have brought a drilling boom to town, it will run out: A worker gives a hand signal over the sound of massive pumps at an Encana Oil & […]
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