The Insatiable Thirst Of Fossil Fuels

The next the big wars aren't going to be over oil; they're going to be over water.

If the last drop of petroleum disappeared tomorrow, life would suddenly become extremely difficult (could you walk to work every day?) but people would not start dying by the millions very quickly.

If we lose access to clean drinking water, people will start dying by the millions very quickly.

So why are we letting fossil-fuel-burning plants ruin 40 percent of our freshwater supplies?

Kevin Drum:

From Brad Plumer:

In the United States, coal, gas and nuclear plants account for roughly 40 percent of the nation’s freshwater use, drawing from rivers and lakes to prevent their turbines from overheating.

I did not know that. That's as much as the entire agricultural sector uses. Personal use accounts for about 14% of total freshwater consumption in the United States.