From an innovative company called Energy Points, an interesting piece on the watergy connection below: North Carolina in 2007. Brazil in 2012. Texas in 2013. And California right now. What do they have in common? Droughts and heat waves are becoming routine in many parts of the world, and they can pose major challenges for […]
Read more »Via the Los Angeles Times, an article on how some residents of Greeley, Colorado worry that as they sell water to the oil and gas companies that have brought a drilling boom to town, it will run out: A worker gives a hand signal over the sound of massive pumps at an Encana Oil & […]
Read more »Courtesy of The Economist, a report on the watergy tensions bedeviling Brazil’s power industry: PRAYING to St Peter is not much of an energy policy. Yet that is what Brazil’s government seems to be doing by counting on rain—which, according to folklore, São Pedro dispenses at the pearly gates—to sort out a looming electricity crisis. […]
Read more »Courtesy of The Guardian, an article on how water scarcity and poor hydro management can threaten energy production: The UK’s climate change minister Greg Barker and Nobel Laureate Kofi Annan will be among those meeting in Delhi this week to try to get to grips with one of the most pressing issues of our time: […]
Read more »Via the Christian Science Monitor, an article on how California consumers are being told to save water now so they will have electricity later: The message to Californians is as unequivocal as it is counterintuitive to some: Take shorter showers, turn off the faucet while shaving, stop watering your lawn, and there might be enough […]
Read more »Via CERES, a release on fracking via CSRWire: As hydraulic fracturing is increasingly used for oil and gas extraction across much of the United States and Western Canada, a new Ceres report issued todayshows that much of this activity is happening in arid, water stressed regions, creating significant long-term water sourcing risks for companies operating […]
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