Published in ERW, 3 Oct 2013
Drought-prone regions may be able to free up precious freshwater by shifting around their power generation. That’s the conclusion of a US group of researchers, who have shown in a Texan case study that the process could make available an amount of water equivalent to the daily use of 1.5% of the state’s population.
In many parts of the world, droughts are expected to become more extreme and more frequent as a result of climate change. The US experienced an almost record-breaking drought between 1998 and 2004, and saw shorter-term severe droughts in the midwest last year, and in Texas in 2011. […]
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