Via SmartPlanet, a report on the Middle East’s watergy issues: The oil and gas producing countries of the Middle East may be sitting pretty in fossil fuels, but they have an urgent problem with their water supply. That was the focus of the International Water Summit held in conjunction with the World Future Energy Summit […]
Read more »Via The Energy Collective, an article on the watergy nexus: The President’s inauguration speech sparked renewed dialogue about the need for a comprehensive energy plan to address climate change. Recent decrease in lake levels in Texas is causing the city of Wichita Falls to look for new ways to stabilize their water supplies. Frequently missing […]
Read more »Via The Wilson Center’s China Environmental Forum, an interesting report on China’s energy and water imbalances, and the looming choke point China faces in terms of water, food and energy security: Mammoth infrastructure development is keeping China’s economic engine running at a fast clip. Nevertheless, China’s urban and industrial centers on the east coast still […]
Read more »Via the Daily Camera, a report on one aspect of Colorado’s watergy nexus: Flatiron Freddy, Boulder’s rodent meteorologist, has signaled more winter ahead and it’s faint comfort for those who are too familiar with evacuating for wildfire, as this year’s winter is certainly not moist enough to keep that threat much at bay, and there’s […]
Read more »Via the World Resource Institute’s Aqueduct blog, a quick look at India’s watergy issues: Early last week, the strained electrical power infrastructure in northern and eastern India was pushed to its breaking point. Two days of power failures impacted a staggering 670 million people (or, put another way, more than the combined populations of the […]
Read more »Via The Guardian, a look at the amount of energy we use to pump, clean and transport water: In the water-food-energy nexus, the relationship between water and energy may appear obvious. Water is used to create energy through hydro-power for example, or to cool power stations or to mine fossil fuels. But there’s another side […]
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