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Energy-Water Nexus // Head-On Collision or Near Miss?

By Kristen Averyt. Energy production requires water, and clean water requires energy. How will we overcome this feedback loop in a warming, increasingly crowded world?

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One year ago, U.S. Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz warned that the ongoing drought in California could bring brownouts, and that climate change could create more challenges for power plants. Moniz linked this risk to hydropower. But the reliability of energy production and its connections with drought and climate are far more complex than his remarks suggest.

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May-June 2016

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American Scientist. May-June 2016. Volume 104, Number 3. Page 158. DOI: 10.1511/2016.120.158.

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