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Asia-Pacific water-energy dependence mapped in Sandia study
A wide-ranging analysis of water vulnerability across the Pacific — including the U.S., China, Russia and Japan — has identified hundreds of locations where energy production depends upon scarce water supplies. The Sandia National Laboratories study, Mapping Water Consumption for Energy Production Around the Pacific Rim, was published in Environmental Research Letters. Prepared for the Asia-Pacific Economic Corporation (APEC), the first-of-its-kind report maps out every power plant, refinery and mine in 21 Asian-Pacific economies that rely on fresh water for energy. Simultaneously, it shows the data in context to regions at high to extreme risk of drought and dwindling natural water supplies.