'link' — Water And Power

The future will demand a holistic approach, one that recognizes that a drop of water is a unit of energy, and a kilowatt-hour is a measurement of water moved or treated. It requires investing in closed-loop cooling systems for power plants, retrofitting water infrastructure to stop the massive leakage that wastes both water and the energy to pump it, and aggressively pursuing renewable energy that breaks the stranglehold of thermal cooling.

Pumping water from deep underground or moving it across mountain ranges via aqueducts requires immense electrical loads. For example, the is the single largest consumer of electricity in the state of California, used primarily to pump water from the lush north to the arid south. Desalination: The High-Energy Frontier water and power