Via the Christian Science Monitor, a look at the watergy Californians are being asked to cut water usage 25 percent. Should the oil industry cut back, too? It’s a question arising worldwide as energy demand rises in water-scare regions Manicured lawns will give way to arid, drought-tolerant landscaping. Homeowners will retrofit bathrooms with low-flow toilets. Golf […]
Read more »Via EcoWatch, a slightly different perspective on the water-energy nexus but one interesting enough to share: With Brazil’s historic drought drying up its hydroelectric plants, the South American country is turning to solar power to help relieve its foreboding energy crisis. Brazil’s devastating drought has depleted its reservoirs causing the nation to consider alternative energy options besides hydropower, which […]
Read more »Via the Union for Concerned Scientists, a new report on watergy challenges and opportunities in California: It takes more than snow and rainfall to keep California’s taps flowing; it demands energy and lots of it, particularly during a record-setting drought. The state’s water and wastewater utilities consume large amounts of electricity to pump, treat, transport, […]
Read more »Via Circle of Blue, an interesting article examining India’s run-of-the-river diplomacy and the likelihood of it building more Himalayan dams: With all the immediate distress and hopeful fervor that has greeted Narendra Modi’s new administration, one of the government’s unyielding themes is the prime minister’s allegiance to running water. Specifically, the swift currents that pour from […]
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