Keeping with today’s UN World Water Day theme – the official day was Saturday – this comment comes from IEA Executive Director Maria van der Hoeven and shows the energy-water nexus is increasingly recognized at high levels as one of today’s critical energy development challenges.

“Water availability is a growing concern for energy and assessing the energy sector’s use of water is important in an increasingly water-constrained world.” – Maria van der Hoeven, Water for Energy: Is energy becoming a thirstier resource,? World Energy Outlook 2012