Special Issue // Water-Energy-Food Nexus in Large Asian River Basins
Ed. by Marko Keskinen, Shokhrukh Jalilov and Olli Varis. The connections between water, food and energy are currently being discussed more than ever…
River Basins // Water-Energy-Food Nexus in Large Asian River Basins
By Marko Keskinen and Olli Varis. The water-energy-food nexus ("nexus") is promoted as an approach to look at the linkages between water, energy and…
Circle of Blue // Marriage Of Coal And Water In Arizona Renews Vows
By Brett Walton. A five-decade-old bond in Arizona between coal power and the delivery of Colorado River water to cities, tribes, and farms may last…
Policy Brief // Informing national and global responses to shocks to the energy-food-water-environment nexus
This paper by Living With Environmental Change UK (LWEC) asks: "What challenges and opportunities do decision makers need to be aware of in order to…
MIT Technology Review // To Make Fresh Water without Warming the Planet, Countries Eye Solar Power
By Richard Martin. Solar-powered desalination is ideal—if only the cost comes down.
MIT Technology Review // A Desert Full of Tomatoes, Thanks to Solar Power and Seawater
By Michael Reilly and Jamie Condliffe. Sundrop Farms has used a clever system to grow food using unlikely ingredients — but is the idea likely to…
Circle of Blue // U.S. Hydropower Grows By Going Small
By Brett Walton. Hydropower in the United States is primed for a shakeup. On one hand, utilities and governments are tearing down old dams with…
GreenTechMedia // How Batteries Can Make the Water System More Grid-Friendly
By Jeff St. John. Advanced Microgrid Solutions is using Tesla batteries to turn Irvine’s water treatment plants and pumps into energy assets.
World Water Congress 2016 // Water and Energy Nexus
Water And Energy Integrated Planning And Capacity Building - Energy Implications Of The Millennium Drought On The Urban Water Cycles In Southeast…
Research // The Water-Food-Energy Nexus – Realising a New Paradigm
By Alex Smajgl, John R. Ward and Lucie Pluschke. The water-food-energy Nexus has emerged as a new perspective in debates concerned with balancing…
Research // Anatomy of a buzzword: The Emergence of "the Water-Energy-Food Nexus" in UK Natural Resource Debates
By Rose Cairnsa and Anna Krzywoszynska. The existence of a water-energy-food "nexus" has been gaining significant attention in international natural…
Urban Nexus // How Can Cities Reduce Water-Energy Nexus Pressures?
By Robert C. Brears. Cities over the past century have become the driving force of the global economy. Accounting for over half the world’s…
Policy Brief // Assessing Policy Coherence in Brazil, Colombia and Peru using a Water-Energy-Food Nexus Approach
By David Sabogal, Helen Bellfield and Simone Bauch. The Amazonia Security Agenda focuses not only on national security in a traditional sense, but…
COP22 Side Event // Informing NDC Implementation through a Water-Energy-Food Nexus Framework: Lessons from Amazonia and South East Asia
There is a wide community of actors applying WEF Nexus frameworks (e.g. FAO, IUCN, CEPAL, OECD, SEI) in a range of countries and ecosystems, using…
Webinar // Water, Energy, Food Security in the Amazon: Challenges and Opportunities (Spanish)
In this webinar experiences will be shared in the implementation of the Water-Energy-Food Nexus framework through an analysis of transverse and…