Archive for August, 2013

The Watergy Paradox
August 11th, 2013

Via MyWestTexas.com, an article on the water energy paradox, and the possibility that the oil and gas industry will switch en mass to tapping brackish aquifers for hydraulic fracturing within five years: Water and energy are hopelessly entangled — you can’t have one without the other. But figuring out how to get either cleanly and […]

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With Tar Sands Development, Growing Concern Over Water Use
August 11th, 2013

Via Yale’s environment360, a look at the transition of environmental questions about Canada’s massive tar sands development – which have long centered on greenhouse gas emissions – to mounting concerns about the huge volumes of water used by the oil industry and the impact on the vast Mackenzie River Basin: Opposition to the mining of […]

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About This Blog And Its Author
As the scarcity of water and energy continues to grow, the linkage between these two critical resources will become more defined and even more acute in the months ahead.  This blog is committed to analyzing and referencing articles, reports, and interviews that can help unlock the nascent, complex and expanding linkages between water and energy -- The Watergy Nexus -- and will endeavor to provide a central clearinghouse for insightful articles and comments for all to consider.

Educated at Yale University (Bachelor of Arts - History) and Harvard (Master in Public Policy - International Development), Monty Simus has held a lifelong interest in environmental and conservation issues, primarily as they relate to freshwater scarcity, renewable energy, and national park policy.  Working from a water-scarce base in Las Vegas with his wife and son, he is the founder of Water Politics, an organization dedicated to the identification and analysis of geopolitical water issues arising from the world’s growing and vast water deficits, and is also a co-founder of SmartMarkets, an eco-preneurial venture that applies web 2.0 technology and online social networking innovations to motivate energy & water conservation.  He previously worked for an independent power producer in Central Asia; co-authored an article appearing in the Summer 2010 issue of the Tulane Environmental Law Journal, titled: “The Water Ethic: The Inexorable Birth Of A Certain Alienable Right”; and authored an article appearing in the inaugural issue of Johns Hopkins University's Global Water Magazine in July 2010 titled: “H2Own: The Water Ethic and an Equitable Market for the Exchange of Individual Water Efficiency Credits.”