Via Third Pole.net, a report on whether the expansion of hydropower is Asia will shift the region towards a low carbon future, or simply over exploit a fragile ecosystem: For the past two decades, China has been in the midst of an unprecedented dam-building boom, developing over 300 gigawatts (GW) of hydropower. But coal-fuelled development […]
Read more »Via Mashable, an article on how Google’s data center is raises the stakes in South Carolina’s ‘water wars’: Endless emails, map requests, web searches, and everything else we do online requires the use of energy-hungry, water-guzzling data centers. For Google, that enormous thirst for water is causing controversy near Charleston, South Carolina, where the tech giant […]
Read more »Via Future Directions International, a report on how politics and electricity in Punjab combine to prevent groundwater reform: The Central Ground Water Board (CGWB) has stated that groundwater levels in 67 per cent of the Indian state of Punjab have dropped in 65 per cent of wells tested in August 2016, compared to August 2015, […]
Read more »Courtesy of China Water Risk, a look at how water consumption of thermal power generation means electricity-exporting provinces are also exporting water: Embedded water is everywhere, from the shirts we wear to the cereals we eat, not to mention beef. Less well-known is the water that transits through electricity grids, that is, the water used […]
Read more »Via Robert McGrath’s blog, an article on a recent report on the nexus between dams and irrigation: A new study by Ruijie Zeng and colleagues at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, examines the relationship between hydropower (dams) and irrigation (mainly for food production [1]. Hydropower dams are often assumed to benefit agriculture, catching and regulating wild […]
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