Water-Energy Nexus
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Commonly used expression in connection with issues and challenges around the trade-off between water use for human consumption and use, as compared to energy production (hydropower). | |
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WEC - The Water Energy Consortium This report, intended to open debate, stimulate thinking and identify challenges, showsthat reform that empowers the poor is possible and potentially fruitful under certaincircumstances. - Environment and Poverty in Serbia and Montenegro: References to the water-energy nexus with a focus on its impact on poverty in Serbia (at page 73)
Central Asia HDR 2005 - Chapter 4: Water, Energy and the Environment Conclusions: Water, energy and environmental sustainability in Central Asia are inseparably interlinked and have very significant region-wide dimensions that call for regionally coordinated action.First, uncoordinated and competing priorities for water use between upstream and downstream riparian states along the major trans-boundary rivers waste finite water resources, invite investments that are suboptimal from a regional perspective, increase the level of tension and risk of conflict between countries and local communities, and exacerbate the degradation of other environmental assets such as land, forests and wildlife.Second, perverse agricultural policies and wasteful irrigation and drainage management practices are at the core of the region’s water problems and cause substantial losses in agricultural productivity.
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