Water and energy are deeply intertwined in what we refer to as the water-energy nexus.
Keep in mind, however, that the study was commissioned by the Shallow Water Energy Security Coalition.
The idea is that water and energy are inextricably linked: it takes water to make energy and energy to clean and move water.
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The Summit brought together policymakers, scientists, experts and business executives in order to promote water sustainability in arid regions, and to tackle the urgent water and wastewater challenges they are facing -- including the water energy nexus that is gaining prominence on the international agenda.
The water-energy nexus has been coming into focus over the last couple of years.
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While rich in commodities like copper, gold, and silver, Chile lacks both water and energy.
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This plant is an example of how water-energy innovations work in concert to reduce cost.
Further deaths would come from the loss of homes, hospitals, water and energy supplies.
Shripad Dharmadhikary coordinates the Manthan Adhyanan Kendra, a center that researches water and energy issues in India.
Biodiversity also has direct linkages to the emphasis that the company has placed on water and energy responsibility.
That will also mean convincing the food, water and energy sectors to work together, rather than in silos.
We take from nature only that amount that is sustainable: of water, energy, fish, copper, any natural resource.
Water users, from residential to commercial, to even industrial sites could dramatically reduce their water-energy by using the sun.
Made from corn, it takes so much water, energy and land to produce that its environmental benefits are dubious.
To launch concrete initiatives to address the water, energy, food security nexus in a coherent and sustainable way.
In another move to appease the public, the tariffs charged by privatised telephone, water and energy companies will change.
The railways were privatised along similar lines to the water, energy and telephone markets and similar regulators exist in each industry.
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There are also listed utilities in the water and energy sectors that offer funds the kind of secure dividend-payers they seek.
The goal: compact living environments that require less resources and that get the most out of the land, water and energy they do use.
But this decade Pepsi , with its strong Frito-Lay franchise and its killer water and energy drink brands (Gatorade, Aquafina), has become the leader.
Judging how much credit-card firms ought to charge for their services is trickier even than setting the right price for water or energy supplies.
It figures that using less water and energy to execute a basic household function, while looking cool doing it, works pretty well for consumers.
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It predicts a rising global middle class, urban density increases, 50 percent growth in demand for food, water and energy, among many other results.
"The process also uses less water and energy - we simply use coloured bottles to avoid using dye, " says Alex Lo, the company's managing director.
And any sort of mining requires lots of water and energy.
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In developing nations where water and energy are scarce, simple solutions may work better than new, costly technologies that are prone to break, Scarborough said.
To leverage its power, Walmart will ask its suppliers to quantify the amount of water, energy, fertilizer, and the pesticides they use, per unit of food produced.
In the field of the sciences, the issue of water was at the center of discussions, as well as the link between water, energy and food security.
All life as we know it on Earth trades off a source of complex carbon molecules, such as amino acids - just as it needs water and energy.
Its bottled water, energy drinks and yogurt are ubiquitous from the urban markets of Beijing and Shanghai to rural stalls in the snowy mountains of the Tibetan plateau.
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