July 21st, 2013
Via the New Scientist, a report on the impact that clean energy may have upon global water supplies: As the world gets hotter and drier thanks to our predilection for burning fossil fuels, the technologies we need to reduce emissions could be too thirsty to be sustainable. The choices we make balancing power and water […]
Read more »Fracking: At The Corner Of Energy Abundance And Water Scarcity
July 17th, 2013
Via The Christian Science Monitor, a report on the watergy implications of how fracking for oil and gas amid water scarcity has created a public-private crossroads, with both sides attempting to further their goals: Recycling and Reusing Becoming an Imperative There is no greater example of the water-energy nexus than the juncture where water meets the […]
Read more »July 8th, 2013
Via Scientific American, an interesting look at China’s thirst for power, specifically the disconnect between China’s rising demand for coal but the parched country’s growing challenges in finding enough water to cool its coal-fired power plants: By many measures, this northern Chinese city is an ideal candidate for being China’s Wyoming. It has more brown […]
Read more »Fracking Is Already Straining U.S. Water Supplies
June 23rd, 2013
Via Alternet, an interesting article on how some of America’s most intensive oil and gas fracking development is occurring in drought-prone regions where water is scarce: As the level of hydraulic fracturing of oil and gas wells in the United States has intensified in recent years, much of the mounting public concern has centered on […]
Read more »June 1st, 2013
Via the Los Angeles Times, a report on one New Mexico county’s decision to ban fracking — hydraulic fracturing for oil: Tiny Mora County in northern New Mexico recently became the first county in the country to pass an ordinance banning hydraulic fracturing, the controversial oil extraction process known as fracking, which can release harmful […]
Read more »Escalating Water Strains In Fracking Regions
May 29th, 2013
Via Forbes, a look at the increasing tension in the US between energy and water: It’s bad enough that Western farmers and ranchers are reeling from a three-year-old drought and record heat waves. Now they’re feeling the heat from the goliath energy industry – over water. From Texas to Colorado, hydraulic fracturing energy production is […]
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