May 24th, 2011
Via The Daily Energy Report, an article on a new white paper published by The American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy and the Alliance for Water Efficiency that describes the co-dependence of water and energy resources and outlines strategies to use both more efficiently. As the article notes: “Efforts have been underway for decades to […]
Read more »Bringing More Energy Efficiency To Water Use and Water Efficiency To Energy Use
May 19th, 2011
Efforts have been underway for decades to conserve both energy and water, but never in concert. This is unfortunate because energy uses a lot of water and water uses a lot of energy. However, via a GreenTechies article, we have learned of a report that takes a look at the issue from a holistic perspective. […]
Read more »May 19th, 2011
Via The Alliance To Save Energy, an interesting report on the growing recognition of the issue of energy use in water utilities, one aspect of the watergy nexus. As the article notes: “…An estimated 3% of the United States’ total energy use is consumed by extracting, treating and conveying water. In some municipalities, drinking water […]
Read more »U.S. Congress Orders Water-Energy Research
April 26th, 2011
The U.S. Government Accountability Office, a Congressional research agency, recently released a report on energy use in the urban water sector. Not prone to idle talk, the GAO strikes at the heart of the matter in the report’s sub-title: the “Amount of Energy Needed to Supply, Use, and Treat Water Is Location-Specific and Can Be […]
Read more »April 20th, 2011
Via CleanTechies, an interesting report on how wind power affects the watergy nexus: “Besides being good for the environment for reducing emissions and being a renewable source of power, wind energy also uses less water than other types of power generation, stated the American Wind Energy Association recently. This is an important aspect of energy […]
Read more »As China’s Thirst For Coal Grows: A Bohai Sea Pipeline Could Open Northern Coal Fields
April 14th, 2011
Courtesy of Circle of Blue, a detailed look at disputed “watergy” project seen as a must for China’s modernization, namely a first-of-its-kind transcontinental pipeline believed to be a potential breakthrough in developing more fossil energy from Xinjiang and China’s other northern coal-rich provinces, while conserving the region’s scarce freshwater reserves. Of all the threats […]
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