Study: Energy Industry Water Use Set To Double By 2035

Study: Energy Industry Water Use Set To Double By 2035: The International Energy Agency concluded that freshwater use is becoming an increasingly crucial issue for energy production around the world in its 2012 World Energy Outlook. Between steam systems for coal plants, cooling for nuclear plants, fracking for natural gas wells, irrigation for biofuel crops, and myriad other uses, energy production consumed 66 billion cubic meters [...]/p