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Balkan Green Energy News // UNECE publishes report on nexus assessment of Sava River Basin resources
Coordinating assessment of water, energy and agricultural needs among riparian countries is the key to sustainable development in the Sava River…
Berkeley Student Environmental Resource Center // Reflections of BERC’s Water-Energy Nexus Event
By Gil Navarrete. A summary of the Water-Energy Nexus roundtable at Berkeley, University of California, on 2 November 2016.
Risk // Shared risk – key to guiding action on water, food and energy
By Luc Hoffmann Institute. The Sustainable Development Goals challenge markets, regulators and practitioners to identify where and how to act to…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
pv magazine // Solar PV powers desalination plant in Abu Dhabi
By Ilias Tsagas. Solar PV’s dynamism stems from its ability to take on different forms. An emerging application for the technology is seawater…
UN // Sustainable agriculture, better-managed water supplies, vital to tackling water-food nexus
Highlighting the challenges associated with the inextricable links between water and food – the so-called ‘water-food nexus’ – for food security, as…
Innovation at the Nexus of Food, Energy, and Water Systems (InFEWS) Fellows Program
The Innovation at the nexus of Food, Energy, and Water Systems (InFEWS) Fellows Program is open to all UC Berkeley PhD and MS students in good…
Call for Submissions to Tri-State Nexus Workshop
To facilitate the collaboration across their institutions, vice presidents for research at Washington State University, University of Idaho and…
UN NewsCentre // UN agriculture chief calls for stronger water management, improved access for small farmers
The head of the United Nations agricultural agency today urged the international community to promote more efficient use of water and to take steps…
State of the Green // Ensuring Energy, Food, and Water for All
According to DTU International Energy Report 2016, new approaches and collaborations across sectors are necessary if we wish to meet the increasing…
Reducing Water-Food Nexus Pressures In America
By Robert C. Brears. With agricultural production already accounting for the majority of water consumption in the U.S. and water scarcity likely to…
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