Our Interconnected Infrastructure

Our infrastructure for water, energy, transportation, food production, health and everything else in for connected systems that interact with each other.  Links to a collection of recent articles on this subject appear below.

WATER & ENERGY

Energy Department Announces New Technical Review to Assess Black Cells at Hanford’s Waste Treatment Plant (U.S. Department of Energy, Aug. 2, 2012)

Fuel Cell Treats Wastewater and Harvests Energy (Tweed, K., Scientific American, July 16, 2012)

An International Look at the Water-Energy Nexus (Govindarajan, V., & Dhakal, S., Journal AWWA, May 2012)

Ecosystem Economics: Navigating the Water-Food-Energy Nexus (Winston, A., & Wales, A., The Guardian, April 17, 2012)

Hybrid Energy Tech Could Clean Wastewater for Free (Moore, S. K., IEEE Spectrum, Mar. 2012)

WATER & FOOD

Farming without water (Mazurek, B., Grist, Aug. 6, 2012)

Global Power Brokers Focus on Food and Water Scarcity (Smale, W., BBC News, July 12, 2012)

The Regenesis Project: A New Approach for Irrigated Agriculture (Cech, T., Journal AWWA, May 2012)

Ecosystem economics: Navigating the Water-Food-Energy Nexus (Winston, A., & Wales, A., The Guardian, April 17, 2012)

WATER & HEALTH/SANITATION

Access to Safe Water and Sanitation Could Save 2.5 Million Lives Annually (Markham, D., Treehugger, April 18, 2012)

Middle East Water Woes Beg for Environmental Sewage Solutions (Simon, M., Green Prophet, April 15, 2012)