Hydropower
Nexus Workshop // IHE Delft Sustainable Hydropower Workshop 2020
IHE Delft is organizing an exciting workshop asking the question: Can hydropower be sustainable? It will take place on the 28th and 29th of April…
Special Session at 38th IAHR World Congress // Sustainable Water Storage to Meet Water, Food, and Energy Development Goals
Storage to stabilize water availability is essential to sustain water, food and energy production, reduce hazards, and adapt to climate change.…
Session at EGU General Assembly 2019 // Sustainable Water Storage for Food and Energy Production
Superficial water storage is essential to sustain and stabilize water supply, food and energy production, reduce hydro-climatological hazards, and…
Session at EGU General Assembly 2019 // Hydropower and Other Renewable Energy Sources: Integration and Planning amid the Water-Energy Nexus
The transition to a low-carbon economy and programs of nuclear power phase-out will require the development of innovative methods to integrate…
Conference // Water Storage and Hydropower Development for Africa
The connection of energy and water is most obvious in electricity generation through hydropower. Plus dams have an important impact on the…
Irrigation versus Hydropower // Sectoral Conflicts in Southern Sri Lanka
By François Molle, Priyantha Jayakody, Ranjith Ariyaratne and H. S. Somatilake. Although hydropower does not directly consume water, its generation…
The Water-Energy-Food Nexus in Latin America and the Caribbean // Priority Interconnections
By Antonio Embid Irujo and Liber Martin. This paper analyses the water-energy-food (WEF) Nexus in Latin America and the Caribbean. By briefly…
Water, Land and Ecosystems // Water-energy-food weave a tangled web. Here’s how we can navigate it
By Jennie Barron. Ethiopia is currently building one of the world’s largest hydroelectric dams on the Blue Nile River close to its Sudanese border.…
Hydropower // The Water-Energy Nexus in Chile: A Description of the Regulatory Framework for Hydroelectricity
This article offers a general description of hydropower regulations in Chile wherein two sectors that are regulated separately come to meet each…
Presentation // The Role and Perspective of Hydropower in Water-Energy-Food Nexus in China
By Liu Heng, International Center on Small Hydropower, GWP China Regional Technical Committee. With key figures for water supply and hydropower…
Nexus Blog // Opportunities for mutual learning? The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam and Fomi dam: transboundary relations and Nexus thinking across the Sahel
By Luca Ferrini & Lucia Benavides. More than 500 million people in Sub-Saharan Africa still do not have access to electricity. Population growth…
Project // S-MultiStor: Sustainable Hydropower and Multipurpose Storage to Meet the Water, Food and Energy SDG's
This project is a 3-year program to investigate and demonstrate improved approaches to sustainable multipurpose water storage, including both gray…
Pricing // Rising Energy Prices and the Economics of Water in Agriculture
By David Zilberman, Thomas Sproul, Deepak Rajagopal, Steven Sexton and Petra Hellegers. This article looks at how rising energy prices will alter…
Publication // Water-Energy-Food Nexus Sustainability in the Upper Blue Nile (UBN) Basin
By Allam, M. M., & Eltahir, E. A. (2019). This paper presents a framework for optimal allocation of land and water resources in the upper Blue Nile…
Water-Energy Nexus // Energy Resource Use Options for Improved Energy Security in Ethiopia
By Hiroshan Hettiarachchi, UNU-FLORES. Ethiopia’s energy sector faces critical challenges to meet a steadily increasing energy demand. This is due to…