Study // Understanding the Food Energy Water Nexus - Through the water and food lens
Food, water and energy security form the basis of a self-sufficient economy, but as a water-scarce country with little arable land and a dependence…
// Energy Minister: Water shortage at critical stage in 3 provinces
Speaking to reporters during a visit to a dam construction project in Zanjan Province on Sunday, the energy minister added that Tehran, Isfahan, and…
Reseach Paper // The Water-energy-food security nexus in the Mediterranean: challenges and opportunities
Some of the biggest challenges the world is facing hinge on the growing scarcity and allocation of resources vital to sustaining life-water energy…
CGIAR Development Dialogue // Blog // Thirsty food story: grasping the invisible ingredient
Every food item we eat needs water for its production, but different foods require different amount of water. What do you think consumes more water:…
Call for participants // Water Energy Food Nexus Sandpit
In response to the nexus challenges the EPSRC is leading a sandpit in the water-energy-food nexus with the aim of enabling UK researchers to perform…
RT // California aquifers contaminated with billions of gallons of fracking wastewater
Industry illegally injected about 3 billion gallons of fracking wastewater into central California drinking-water and farm-irrigation aquifers, the…
The Guardian // Call for coverage subjects // What next for water and sustainability? - your ideas for our coverage
As The Guardian expand their water coverage and explore just how business, alongside governments and NGOs, will address water challenges - they'd…
Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) // Opinion // Tackling the Water-energy-food Nexus Without Reinventing the Wheel
Does a shift in global policy debates toward the 'water-energy-food security nexus' - that is, looking at competition over natural resources to…
Reseach Paper // Energy-Water Nexus: The Water Sector's Energy Use
by Claudia Copeland, Specialist in Resources and Environmental Policy with the U.S. Congressional Research Service
Nexus Conference 2015 // Last Call for Abstracts for the Nexus Conference 2015 in Chapel Hill
Deadline for submission of abstracts is 31 Oct 2015. The Nexus 2015 conference will again have an opportunity to input to the Sustainable Development…
The Guardian // Finding solutions for South Africa's coal-fired water and energy problems
South African businesses, NGOs and government seek to address challenges in the water-stressed, coal producing country. Coal production, from mining…
Video // Global Choke Point - On the Front Lines of the Water-Food-Energy Crisis
Circle of Blue Wilson Center Global Chokepoint Presentation
The Hill // Congress needed on water, power
By now most people are all too familiar with the extended drought in the American Southwest. Pictures of wildfires in California, decimated…
GreenBiz // Blog // Must water be an evaporating asset?
As Climate Week drew to a close last month, the media and sustainability experts lauded the private sector for its can-do attitude towards addressing…
Report // Understanding the Energy-Water Nexus
A "nexus approach", which in our context refers to a multidisciplinary type of analysis of the relationship between energy, water and food, can help…