No Water, No Power - China in Focus
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China intends on adding 1.2TW of power by 2030. This is more than the total installed power capacity of the US, UK and Australia or 5.9 times the total ...
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Read entries from the Water-Energy Nexus Blogging Contest
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TheAbu Dhabi Sustainability Weekis expected to be held from January 13-17, 2013.The organizers say that it "will be the largest gathering on sustainability in ...
Burning Our Rivers: The Water Footprint of Electricity
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Hello all, Did you know? 'for every gallon of residential water used in an average household, five times more is used to provide that home with electricity ...
UK to allow Fracking [Hydraulic Fracturing] for shale gas
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In a controversial move, Mr. Edward Davey, the Energy and Climate Change Secretary of the UK has granted permission for exploratory fracking operations ( See ...
Water in the Anthropocene
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by Sina Marx, Global Water System Project - Networking Officer
A major event in the research of global environmental changes and the global water system will take place in Germany next year: The GWSP Conference 'Water in ...
World Toilet Day!
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by Bienheureuse Bucyeyeneza, none
Just to underline on today's thema which is"World toilet day"
Ethiopian mega-dam on the Nile River
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by Claudia Casarotto, Innovations for Poverty Action - Deputy Country Director - Kenya
Ethiopia has planned investments for more than $12 billion in a large dam on the Nile that will generate more than 40,000 MW of hydropower by 2035, making it ...
Hydropower dams, climate change, and water availability
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by Claudia Casarotto, Innovations for Poverty Action - Deputy Country Director - Kenya
A new report by Prof. Beilfuss shows the risks that climate change and hydrological variability might have on the large hydropower dams on the Zambezi River. ...
Water and land nexus
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The water can not flow in air. It needs land to flow. If the land does not allow it to flow, it can not flow and can not reach natural drainage channels like ...
Energy/Water Implications
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by Brian Mallalieu, Kingsmen Consultants - Principal
Here in UK (& elsewhere?) I believe there is a 'blind spot' when it comes to the amount and cost energy in the use & especially the waste of water? Surely, ...
ACWUA’s 5th Best Practices Conference
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by Bassam Hayek, HAYECON - General Manager
ACWUA’s 5th Best Practices Conference Utilities Perspective on Water Resources Management in the Arab Region 3-5 June, 2012 - Muscat, Oman In cooperation with ...