Forbes // Water, Energy, Food - Increasingly, Everything Is Connected
People often think of scientists as solitary types, working alone in our labs, focused on a narrow topic. But if that was ever true, it’s not now.…
Seminar Report // Collection and Use of Rainwater in Latin America: Experiences and Conclusions of a Debate
This publication provides the results of the International Seminar on Rain Water Harvesting Systems, held in November 2014 at the headquarters of the…
Research // The Water-Energy Nexus in Middle East and North Africa
By Afreen Siddiqi and Laura Diaz Anadon. Extracting, delivering and disposing water requires energy, and similarly, many processes for extracting and…
Research // Policy and Institutional Dimensions of the Water-Energy Nexus
By Christopher A. Scott, Suzanne A. Pierce, Martin J. Pasqualetti, Alice L. Jones, Burrell E. Montz, Joseph H. Hoover. Energy and water are…
Union of Concerned Scientists // How it Works: Water for Coal
Coal-fired power plants, which produce almost half of the country’s electricity, have significant impacts on water quantity and quality in the United…
Huffington Post // The Intersection of Water, Energy and Climate
In our globalized world, everything is interconnected. Water, energy and climate can no longer be thought of as separate issues. The only effective,…
The Guardian // Coal plants use as much water as 1 billion people and consumption set to double
World Water Day research finds 44% of coal plants, and 45% of planned coal power plants, in areas of water stress.
Food Security // The Food Water Energy Nexus
Food security is the defining issue of the 21st Century. There’s no better way to illustrate systemic impacts than to look at the food-water-energy…
ECOMENA // Water-Food Linkage in Arab World
By Waleed Khalil Zubari. The water-food linkage represents an important and vital nexus in the Arab countries. Under the current unstable food…
MENA Region // WEF Nexus in the Arab Region: Challenges and Prospects
In Arab language. - In this interview Prof. Waleed Khalil Al-Zubari of the Arabian Gulf University (AGU) highlights the great importance of adopting…
PHYS.org // Water-energy dependence around Pacific Rim mapped
A wide-ranging analysis of water vulnerability across the Pacific — including the U.S., China, Russia and Japan — has identified hundreds of…
Nexus Job Vacancy // Senior Researcher on WEF Nexus at Cranfield University, UK
A vacancy has arisen in the Complex Systems Research Centre for a senior researcher on the STEPPING UP project, funded by the EPSRC. With experience…
Politico // Oil-rich Norway could become Europe’s ‘green battery’
Its hydro power could help ease Europe’s transition to renewables: The oil and gas exports that made Norway rich are also key contributors to climate…
Africa // Energy and food production: powering the balancing act
Blackouts and water shortages can severely harm a nation’s food security. Resource allocation tools can help policy makers improve energy access…
Conference // Nexus Thinking
The theme for the 2016 Annual Conference (AC2016) of the Royal Geographical Society (UK) is nexus thinking, an approach that has attracted a surge of…