A technology to supply water in relevant amounts is desalinization of seawater. It is at the intersection of water, food and energy issues, because the water for drinking and food is a necessity of life but its production from seawater requires lots of electricity. It competes with other technologies such as extracting water from air. [...]
The firm house lingers, though averse to square with the new city street it has to wear A number in. But what about the brook that held the house as in an elbow-crook? I ask as one who knew the brook, its strength and impulse, having dipped a finger length and made it leap my [...]
A simplified scheme of the hydrological stocks and flows is given below. The climate variables precipitation and temperature over time are the most important input variables. Rainwater will fall upon the vegetation and partly flow out as runoff and partly evaporate, and the remainder penetrates the soil where it adds to the stock of soil [...]
October 2014. Latin America’s biggest metropolis may, again, run out of water. For some of the 20 million residents across Sao Paulo, taps are already running dry. Dilma Pena, chief executive officer of the state-run water utility Cia. de Saneamento Basico do Estado de Sao Paulo (Sabesp), told the city council that supplies are only [...]
The market has discovered scarcity as something to be desired. The Stock Fund Utilities department of the dutch bank ING announced in 2007:”…prospects remain good. In the states of California and New York energy shortages threaten and it drives the price up.” Similar advertisement are seen for water. Drinking water used to be a service [...]