Burning Our Rivers: The Water Footprint of Electricity

A new report by River Network provides the first accounting of how much water is used to generate electricity on an average per-kilowatt basis. We found that for every gallon of water used in an average household, five times more water (40,000 gallons each month) is used to provide that home with electricity via hydropower turbines and fossil fuel power plants.

http://www.rivernetwork.org/sites/default/files/BurningOurRivers_0.pdf