Water Use in the Energy Sector Set to Double by 2035
The
International Energy Agency concluded that freshwater use is becoming
an increasingly crucial issue for energy production around the world in
its 2012 World Energy Outlook.Between steam systems for coal plants,
cooling for nuclear plants, fracking for natural gas wells, irrigation
for biofuel crops, and myriad other uses, energy production consumed 66
billion cubic meters (BCM) of the world’s fresh water in 2010. That is
water removed from its source and lost to evaporation, consumption, or
transported out of the water basin — as…Read more...http://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Water-Use-in-the-Energy-Sector-Set-to-Double-by-2035.html
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