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Water-Energy Nexus // Benefits of Clean Power Plan Are Measureable - Drop for Drop
What if I told you that with the Clean Power Plan (CPP), the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), which controls the power grid for roughly…
Water-Food Nexus // 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:…
E2Designlab Blog // Blog // Hungry 'burbs': Could urban agriculture be the answer to the energy-food-water nexus?
The urban fringe is perhaps the best place to start to make the big moves, overlapping urban and rural functions instead of keeping them apart.
// Raise your voice for a secure and sustainable supply of food, energy and water
Addressing food, energy and water security as interconnected is the key to securing sustainable communities, according to a report released on World…
Glacier Hub // Blog // Hundreds of Millions of South Asians At Risk from Glacier Melt
Few regions on Earth depend as heavily on glaciers for food, energy and water as South Asia's Hindu Kush Himalayan ecosystem.
Khaleej Times // Energy, water, food issues cannot be dealt separately: Experts
By 2030 there will be more than eight billion people in the world; by that time the consumption of energy, water and food will also rise by 40 to 50…
// 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…
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…
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…
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…
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