Electricity generation often requires large amounts of water, most notably for cooling
thermoelectric power generators and moving hydroelectric turbines. This so-called …

Infrastructure are at the center of three trends: accelerating human activities, increasing
uncertainty in social, technological, and climatological factors, and increasing complexity of …

2. Background The United States Geological Survey (USGS) estimates that total US water
withdrawals in 2005 were approximately 410 billion gallons per day. Of this amount, 349 …

Leveraging the potential flexibility of large electrical loads has become an attractive option
for maintaining grid reliability, especially in electric grids with high penetrations of variable …

Intra-national electricity transmission drives virtual water transfer from electricity production
regions to electricity consumption regions. In China, the water-intensive thermoelectric …

The United States (US) energy system is a large water user, but the nature of that use is
poorly understood. To support resource comanagement and fill this noted gap in the …

The US power sector is in a state of transition, prompted by significant shifts in technological
innovations, energy markets, regulatory structures, and social pressures. As the electricity …

This study characterizes cooling water sources (by type and quality) and cooling water
usage rates in thermoelectric power plants across the US based on data reported by power …

Background Moving from malaria control to elimination requires national malaria control
programmes to implement strategies to detect both symptomatic and asymptomatic cases in …

The nexus between energy, water and agricultural production is important to consider for
effective resource management and risk mitigation. New data acquisition techniques, in …