Water for electricity: Resource scarcity, climate change and business in a finite world
Water for electricity: Resource scarcity, climate change and business in a finite world / Amanda Fencl, Victoria Clark, Vishal Mehta, David Purkey, Marion Davis and David Yates. Stockholm Environment Institute, May 2012, 52 p.
The report discusses trade-offs between electricity generation and water use and ways in which climate change and hydrologic changes impacts electricity generation, especially in areas where climate change may decrease the availability of water. The report also examines conventional technologies’ water use in electricity production as well as the water requirements associated with renewable energy technologies… read more on IISD web site