Water vs. energy

It’s now widely recognized, if infrequently mentioned, that it takes water to make energy, and energy to transport and treat water.
Michael Webber of the University of Texas has been mentioning it a lot. In a recent Scientific American article, he wrote at length about the ecological death spiral that results when energy and water utilities chase a stressed resource.

Thermoelectric power plants are the largest consumers of water in the United States, Webber pointed out in a talk on [...]

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