Beschreibung:
This cross-disciplinary book reviews how water use, and wastewater and waste solids produced from fossil fuels energy production affect water quality and quantity. Summarizing key research on the energy-water nexus in the context of current policy and regulations, it provides a key reference for scientists, engineers and policy makers.
1. Introduction; 2. Energy and Water Flows; 3. The Coal-Water Nexus; 4. Conventional Crude Oil and Tight Oil - Water Nexus; 5. Conventional and Unconventional Natural Gas - Water Nexus; 6. Integration: The Role of Energy on the Anthropogenic Global Water Cycles, References; Index.