Thinking about water differently: Managing the water-food-energy nexus

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ADB (2013) Thinking about water differently: Managing the water-food-energy nexus, Asian Development Bank, Manila, Philippines.

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The water-food-energy nexus is emerging as a critical issue in Asia and the Pacific. It is clear that solutions must be found to assure water security, thereby eliminating the immediate--and increasing--risk to food security, energy security, and economic growth and stability: water must be recognized as an economic as well as a social good. Governments need to be encouraged to think differently about water, take the longer-term view, and be mindful of the strategic and economic value of this limited resource.

This publication is the result of a scoping study initiated by the Asian Development Bank to better understand the issues associated with the water-food-energy nexus in Asia and the Pacific. It provides high-level guidance on the choices available to address the region's water security issues.

Link to free pdf version of the publication:
http://www.adb.org/publications/thinking-about-water-differently-managing-water-food-energy-nexus

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  1. My work is to purify wastewater using algae in a miniature sewage treatment plant, scaled to home-farm-ranch size, using the algae to remove nutrients gains biodiesel, and if no toxins-poisons-antibiotics are in the water the pressed algae cakes are a quality fertilizer.

    This means for a small dairy the barn washdown can be recycled and a ton of biodiesel is gained to run the milk processing and field equipment, heat the barn and likely have leftovers to sell to neighbors.

    Being based on the small operation is what needs to happen, top down, centralized solutions to water-fuel-food don't exist, chemical agriculture fails the sustainability requirement and these huge farms pull groundwater and aquifers where in the USA it's getting tight on those sources, what that means is when they collapse at these massive levels of water removal the whole system of crops fails ... not brilliant for a plan for the future.