The Road to Resilience // Managing the Risks of the Energy-Water-Food Nexus
This report focuses understanding how the energy sector can better manage impacts on land and water whilst still aiming to balance the Energy…
Resilience // The Hidden Risk in the Energy-Water-Food Nexus
By Christoph Frei. As the infrastructure for energy supply and demand continues to develop around the world, it will be critical to strengthen its…
Research // National Science Foundation (NSF) invests $72 million in innovations at nexus of food, energy and water systems
To help secure the future of food, energy, and water systems while maintaining vital ecosystem services, the National Science Foundation (NSF) has…
Water and Climate Diplomacy // Integrative Approaches for Adaptive Action in Transboundary River Basins
By Sabine Blumstein, Benjamin Pohl and Dennis Tänzler. This report outlines key water governance instruments that support climate change adaptation…
Water-Climate Nexus // Calming the Waters: Why We Need to Better Integrate Climate and Water Policy
By Sabine Blumstein. According to a new report from adelphi, launching at the 2016 World Water Week in Stockholm, transboundary river basins need…
Nexus Job Vacancy // PhD Position in EU Research Project on Water-Energy-Food Nexus at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
The Institute of Environmental Science and Technology of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain) is offering one PhD position to work in a…
The Guardian // Africa's portable solar revolution is thwarting thieves
More secure supplies of electricity are helping to spawn new industries in rural Africa by enabling reliable refrigeration and irrigation
Virtualisation // Virtual water - the water, food, and trade nexus. Useful concept or misleading metaphor?
By J.A. (Tony) Allen. The purpose of this contribution is first, to respond to the request for clarification of the term virtual water by Stephen…
Water-Food Nexus // Increasing Water Productivity in Agriculture
By Katrien Descheemaeker, Stuart W. Bunting, Prem Bindraban, Catherine Muthuri, David Molden, Malcolm Beveridge, Martin van Brakel, Mario Herrero,…
Book // The Water, Food, Energy and Climate Nexus: Challenges and an Agenda for Action
Ed. by Felix Dodds and Jamie Bartram. Global trends of population growth, rising living standards and the rapidly increasing urbanized world are…
World Water Week 2016 // A Nexus for the future
For the past five years, development sector professionals have been looking with increased interest at the way various issues facing the world…
Forbes // Water, Energy, Food - Increasingly, Everything Is Connected
People often think of scientists as solitary types, working alone in our labs, focused on a narrow topic. But if that was ever true, it’s not now.…
Seminar Report // Collection and Use of Rainwater in Latin America: Experiences and Conclusions of a Debate
This publication provides the results of the International Seminar on Rain Water Harvesting Systems, held in November 2014 at the headquarters of the…
Research // The Water-Energy Nexus in Middle East and North Africa
By Afreen Siddiqi and Laura Diaz Anadon. Extracting, delivering and disposing water requires energy, and similarly, many processes for extracting and…
Research // Policy and Institutional Dimensions of the Water-Energy Nexus
By Christopher A. Scott, Suzanne A. Pierce, Martin J. Pasqualetti, Alice L. Jones, Burrell E. Montz, Joseph H. Hoover. Energy and water are…