Via the blog A Musing Environment, a detailed examination of how much energy goes to water. As the article reports: “…Energy demands for water use are significant. Unfortunately, most of the water we consume never appears on our home water bill. Our bill doesn’t show us water use for eating and showering elsewhere, or for […]
Read more »Courtesy of The New York Times, an interesting report on the intensive use of energy in the provision and transportation of water. As the article notes: “…In the run-up to the Copenhagen climate summit conference last year, water researchers and advocates held a special meeting to address the fact that water issues were absent from […]
Read more »As very ably reported in IEEE’s Spectrum magazine, there is a coming clash between energy and water. We are seeing the early indicators of this in situations such as the debate about ethanol’s viability given its enormous water footprint or the discussion over the extraction of petroleum from northern Alberta’s oil sands at the expense […]
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