Electricity or drinking water? By 2040, you might not get both

[LuckyTheDog]

Last edited Wed Jul 30, 2014, 05:26 PM - Edit history (1)

Energy companies need to change the way they produce power, otherwise drinking water will become a scarce commodity for the world's population by 2040.

As soon as 2020, 30 to 40 percent of people around the world won't have access to drinking water unless the competing issues of creating energy and supplying clean water are addressed, according to research by a team from Aarhus University in Denmark and the U.S.'s Vermont Law School and CNA Corp.

One reason the vital needs are in conflict is that power plants must be cooled due to the immense heat that's generated.

MORE HERE: http://wonkynewsnerd.com/water-shortage-unless-power-companies-change/

[el_bryanto]

1. You might want to correct your post title - i think it's 2040.

Interesting article though - hope it's not correct, but it well could be.

Bryant

[Louisiana1976]

2. Yeah your post title needs to be changed. Good article though. I wonder if there's a way

dirty water can be used to cool the power plant.

[LuckyTheDog]

4. Done (nt)

[Bluenorthwest]

3. Right now 780 million people lack access to clean water. 3.4 million deaths a year from water and

sanitation issues, hundreds of children die each day from lack of proper water. This is now, not some imagined future. 17% of humanity lacks water access.
http://water.org/water-crisis/water-facts/water/

[badtoworse]

5. Air cooled condensers have been around for decades.