June 12th, 2012
Via CNN’s Money page, a look at the watergy challenge in southern Kansas: In the farm country of southern Kansas, water is a precious commodity. And not just for farming — for fracking. In hydraulic fracturing, water is injected into the ground at a high pressure to help crack shale rock and bring oil to […]
Read more »Reduced Water Flows To Hit European Power Supplies
June 7th, 2012
Via Energy Daily, a report that reduced river flows and warmer water due to climate change will lead to power supply disruptions in Europe. As the article notes: “…A European Commission-funded study conducted in part by the Wageningen University and Research Center in the Netherlands predicted thermoelectric power generating capacity from 2031-60 will decrease 6-19 […]
Read more »May 4th, 2012
Courtesy of Circle of Blue, a look at Australia’s growing watergy crisis: The scale and rapid development of Australia’s coal seam gas industry is changing the social fabric of the country’s small towns and farming regions. Drilling has bruised agriculture’s ego by challenging the decades-long idea that rural areas should be quiet places where landowners […]
Read more »Western China’s Watergy Crisis
April 30th, 2012
Via Yale’s Environment 360 blog, a look at how China – In its quest to find new sources of energy – is increasingly looking to its western provinces. But, as the article notes, the nation’s push to develop fossil fuel and alternative sources has so far ignored a basic fact — western China simply lacks the […]
Read more »April 25th, 2012
Via AlterNet, an interesting report that two of the nation’s biggest private water utilities may soon profit from treating the wastewater generated after they sell water for fracking purposes: Two of the country’s largest private water utility companies are participants in a massive lobbying effort to expand controversial shale gas drilling — a heavy industrial […]
Read more »Nuclear Power Proposal in Utah Reignites a Century-Old Water War
April 18th, 2012
Via Inside Climate News, a report on the rising tension over the water use of a proposed nuclear power station in Utah: For more than 100 years and maybe back to the days of outlaw Butch Cassidy, water from the Green River has nourished fields of sweet watermelons near the tiny town of Green River, […]
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