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…
Session at DNC 2017 // Tools, data and Instruments for Management of Environmental Resources
As the Nexus Approach presents itself as an alternative to better manage resources, its realisation requires a holistic understanding of the…
VirginiaTech News // Undergraduates can work on food, water, energy problems in Switzerland
Virginia Tech's campus in Switzerland is building on 25 years of programming with a new course of study devoted to global approaches to food, water,…
Session at DNC 2017 // Water and Soil Related Ecosystem Services provided by Forests And Agroforestry Systems
Growing demands to feed more than 7 billion people and provide energy, water, wood and other services, under the threat of climate change, are among…
Session at DNC 2017 // Roles of Multifunctional Reservoirs in the SDG Agenda
Addressing water scarcity through the lens of climate change brings up the need for more water storage. Water reservoirs are celebrated as a clean…
Session at DNC 2017 // Resource Recovery and Reuse in Multifunctional Land-Use Systems
This session is focused on multifunctional land-use systems in dry areas of the world where freshwater scarcity, water quality deterioration, and…