Where Energy Development Puts Rivers at Risk
American Rivers’ annual tally of threatened rivers highlights effects of drilling for natural gas.
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American Rivers’ annual tally of threatened rivers highlights effects of drilling for natural gas.
Upmanu Lall talks specifically of three regions of India where cereals are grown, despite recent droughts.
While the superpower announces ambitious sustainability goals, it faces droughts and intensive energy needs.
The connections between energy and water are significant and complex. We use vast amounts of energy to collect, move, treat, use, and clean water. And we use vast amounts of water to produce energy, including for mining, drilling, and processing fossil and nuclear fuels, and especially for cooling power plants.
The average Haitian has been living the life of a disaster victim even before the earthquake. It is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. Its human development and other indices were about what one would find in some of the poorest sub-Saharan countries. Mismanagement, corruption and just plain venality have forever been human-caused security earthquakes in this sad country.
New initiative will decrease the country’s reliance on oil for its electrical needs.
Please see: https://www.circleofblue.org/2010/world/energy-department-blocks-disclosure-of-road-map-to-relieve-critical-u-s-energy-water-choke-points/
Copenhagen, host of the United Nations Climate Change Conference, claims to be one of the world’s greenest cities. It has extensive public transportation, a strong bicycle culture and plans to be carbon neutral by 2025 through progressive blueprints that reduce carbon emissions 20 percent by 2015 compared to 2005.
Human waste is a cheap energy source for Thames Water, which is in a price dispute with the UK’s water regulator. Thames Water, the largest water provider in the United Kingdom, saved £15 million (US$25 million) last year by using human feces as a source of renewable energy.
Water policy and energy policy must be integrated, according to the International Water Association
Uzbekistan exits the regional energy grid and Tajikistan vows to complete world’s tallest dam.
Injecting water, chemicals, and sand to “frack” the gas from shale rock formations.