Governance // Key Issues of Interdisciplinary NEXUS Governance Analyses: Lessons Learned from Research on Integrated Water Resources Management
By Nina Hagemann and Sabrina Kirschke. Governance has become a cornerstone in addressing complex linkages between multiple resources such as water,…
IWA Conference // "IWA EFFICIENT", Bath/UK
Efficient2017 is an opportunity for water efficiency professionals from all over the world to meet each other, network, and learn about new and…
Book // Storage and Scarcity: New Practices for Food, Energy and Water
By Giorgio Osti. In an era of abundance, at least part of humanity has stopped thinking about the future provision of basic vital resources such…
Keynote at FICWTM 2017 // "New Frontiers in Water-Energy Nexus"
Prof. Gustaf Olsson, Lund University, will give a nexus keynote at the Frontiers International Conference on Wastewater Treatment, organised with…
Risk // Shared risk – key to guiding action on water, food and energy
By Luc Hoffmann Institute. The Sustainable Development Goals challenge markets, regulators and practitioners to identify where and how to act to…
Interview // Rabi Mohtar on the Nexus of Water, Energy and Food
Dr. Rabi Mohtar, a TEES Endowed Professor at Texas A&M University, College Station, and leader of the water, energy, and food nexus research group,…
Modelling // Nexus Tools Platform: Web-based comparison of modelling tools for analysis of water-soil-waste nexus
By T. Mannschatz, T. Wolf and S. Hülsmann. Exploring the inter-linkages of water, soil and waste resources and advancing an integrated management (or…
IEEE Spectrum // How Much Water Does It Take to Make Electricity?
By Willie D. Jones. Water plays a number of roles in energy production, including pumping crude oil out of the ground, helping to remove pollutants…
World Water Day 2017
This year's topic of the World Water Day is Wastewater. The connection to the nexus is obvious - as wasting wastewater means also wasting its…
International Association of Hydrological Sciences // Scientific Assembly 2017, Port Elizabeth/South Africa
The scientific programme of the IAHS Scientific Assembly includes the Nexus topic "Water security and the food-water-energy nexus: drivers, responses…
Call for Submissions // IAHS 2017 Scientific Assembly
For the forthcoming Scientific Assembly of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences, focussed ob "Water And Development: Scientific…
Desalination // Lowering Desalination’s Energy Footprint: Lessons from Israel
By Kate Zerrenner. There’s an old expression that whisky is for drinking and water is for fighting over. The Legislative Session is upon us again in…
Energy-Water Nexus: The Water Sector’s Energy Use
By US Congressional Research Service. This report provides background on energy for facilities that treat and deliver water to end users and also…
PhD Scholarship // Mapping the Water-Energy Nexus and Urban Metabolism, University of Queensland, Australia
Opportunities exist for one or more PhD students to contribute to a set of exciting projects focused on understanding how water and energy are…
Session at DNC 2017 // Monitoring and assessment of resource use in multi-functional land-use systems
Multifunctional land-use systems overcome the strict separation between specialised land-use types such as crop cultivation, livestock grazing and…