Courtesy of The New York Times, an interesting look at the Trump administration’s proposal to sell off portions of a vast system that produces nearly half of the nation’s hydropower electricity: To ride down the Columbia River as the John Day Dam’s wall of concrete slowly fills the view from a tugboat is to see […]
Read more »Via World Resources Institute, an article on how water shortages affect India’s power generation potential: India is making great strides to aggressively expand its renewable energy capacity. But the country’s power sector remains highly reliant on thermoelectric plants, with high demand for water for cooling. That means that droughts, like the one caused last year by weak […]
Read more »Via Ars Technica, a report on the watergy nexus in the European Union: Unless you work at a coal, gas, or nuclear plant, you may not think about water when you think about electricity (certainly at a household level; they don’t mix). But water plays an important part in cooling many power plants, and many power […]
Read more »Via the World Bank’s Water Blog, interesting commentary from Robert Brears on how cities around the world are exploring a variety of technological and management innovations to reduce urban water-energy nexus pressures Cities over the past century have become the driving force of the global economy. Accounting for over half the world’s population and generating around 80% of […]
Read more »Via the World Resources Institute, an article on the watergy nexus: Drought in Kenya and neighboring countries became so severe earlier this year that the government of Kenya declared a national disaster. Already, the effects have been devastating: Food production dropped, leaving more than 2.6 million people without access to sufficient food. Some villagers have […]
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