Event Summary // Choke Point: China
The water-energy-food choke point is forcing a new 21st century reckoning. Three colliding trends — declining freshwater reserves, booming energy…
TriplePundit // Water-Energy Nexus: Utah Approves Largest Solar Power Park
Scatec Solar on April 1 received final approvals from the Utah Public Service Commission and Iron County Community Development and Renewal Agency to…
Forum // CEF Director Jennifer Turner Gave a Talk at University of California San Diego
China's energy and environmental security is threatened as the country hits these choke points. How China deals with these confrontations has…
// Blog // Identifying the Global Coal Industry's Water Risks
Water is essential for energy production–when water risks arise, energy producers around the world feel the impacts. A massive flood in Australia in…
Thompson Reuters Foundation // 'Intelligent' power rationing eases Indian state's irrigation woes
A scheme to separate agricultural and domestic power supplies in Gujarat has been recognised by the United Nations for making irrigation more…
Slides // Strategic studies to support hydropower planning in Lower Mekong Basin to optimize hydropower development opportunities and minimize uncertainty and risks associated with them
Presentation by Voradeth Phonekeo, Mekong River Commission, held on April 3rd, 2014, at the conference "Cooperation for Water, Energy, and Food…
Acclimatise // The water-energy nexus under discussion at US Water Week
Hundreds of professionals in the water sector came together to take part in US Water Week. Taking place on Capitol Hill, participants discussed the…
Between the Poles // Blog // Water scarcity driving investment in renewables with low water consumption
Energy and water are valuable resources that strongly correlate with economic development. Water and energy are also highly interdependent. In the…
Slides // Transboundary cooperation to support food, water and energy security: Experience of the GMS Core Environment Program
Presentation by Sumit Pokhrel, Greater Mekong Subregion Core Environment Programme (GMS - CEP), held on April 3rd, 2014 at the conference…
Slides // Transboundary integrated management of sediment related resources in the Lower Mekong (ecosystems, territorial integrity, power and construction sectors)
Presentation by Lois Koehnken, World Wildlife Fund (WWF), held on April 3rd, 2014, at the conference "Cooperation for Water, Energy, and Food…
Slides // Study on the impacts of mainstream hydropower on the Mekong river
Presentation by Nguyen Thi Thu Linh, Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment of Viet Nam (MONRE), held on April 3rd, 2014, at the conference…
Slides // Assessment of climate change impacts to water resources recession and food security in the Mekong delta
Presentation by by Tran Thuc, Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment of Viet Nam, held on April 3rd, 2014, at the at the conference…
Slides // Water, energy and food systemic approach: social participation and sustainable development
Presentation by Nelton Miguel Friedrich, Itaipu Binacional, held on April 3rd, 2014, at the conference "Cooperation for Water, Energy, and Food…
Slides // Assessing the water-food-energy-ecosystems nexus under the UNECE Water Convention
Presentation by by Annukka Lipponen, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) held on April 2nd, 2014 at the at the conference…
Slides // Water, Energy and Food Security of China and Riparian Countries of Mekong River in the Context of Climate Change
Presentation held by Gas Bo and Zhong Yong, Ministry of Water Resources of P. R. China, on April 2nd, 2014, at the conference "Cooperation for Water,…