It's All Connected

Our infrastructure for water, energy, transportation, and food is all interconnected.  Changes to one has consequences in the others.  Below are links to several articles that explore these interconnections.

Energy & Water

An Energy Diet: Cut Back on Water, Pay More Attention to Fish (Palquist, D., The Nature Conservancy, Nov. 22, 2012)

Contest Between Water and Energy Becoming Big Story (Schneider, K., Circle of Blue, Oct. 5, 2012)

Water Accounts for 12.6 Percent of U.S. Energy Consumption: Report (Consumer Energy Report, Oct. 31, 2012)

US power supply will be impacted by water shortages (Mills, R., Mining.com, Aug. 24, 2012)

Food & Water

Scarcity of Water and Land Shifts Geography of Food Production and Irrigation Networks to China’s Northeast (Schneider, K., Circle of Blue, Nov. 9, 2012)

Water Supply in a Warming World (Gillis, J., New York Times Green blog, Nov. 12, 2012)

Mideast Facing Choice Between Crops and Water (Martin, A., New York Times, July 21, 2008)

Transportation & Water

After Drought, Reducing Water Flow Could Hurt Mississippi River Transport (Schwartz, J., New York Times, Nov. 26, 2012)

Climate Change Adaptation and Shipping Goods on Receding Rivers (Environmental and Urban Economics blog, Nov. 27, 2012)

Mississippi River commerce imperiled by low water (USA Today, Nov. 22, 2012)

Reservoir releases an attempt to raise Mississippi for barge traffic (McAuliffe, B., Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Nov. 18, 2012)

Sanitation & Water

Water saving may lead to big stink (Salleh, A., ABC Science, Nov. 20, 2012)

Other

The World’s Interconnected Infrastructure (Infrastructure Watch, Oct. 23, 2012)