Water scarcity = Energy crisis

BiofuelsWatch.com
by Mike Hammond
Posted on January 2nd 2010

Water shortages can have many undesirable effects on the economy. What is less accepted globally is the fact that water and energy are very much interlinked and it sooner or later will pile up leading towards economic threat as there is mass migration, defense warfare and scarcity of food and this threat is being faced in most of the countries.

As water being the basic element needed for the process of energy production, it needs proper utilization ensuring zero wastage as most of the energy productions make heavy use of water. In Saudi Arabia, oil sites pump more water to increase the base reservoir pressure than the oil it generates. As per the U.S Department of Energy, an oil shale needs more than 6 gallons of water to produce about 1 gallon gasoline, whereas a conventional crude needs just about 2 to 2.5 gallons water to produce a gallon of gasoline.

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