Water Quality Impacts of the Energy-Water Nexus

Avner Vengosh is a Distinguished Professor of Environmental Quality at Duke University's Nicholas School of the Environment. His research focuses on evaluating the prevalence and sources of contaminants in global groundwater resources, and the impact of energy development such as hydraulic fracturing and coal combustion on the quantity and quality of water resources. In 2019 and 2020 he was named on the list of the world's Most Highly Cited Researchers. Erika Weinthal is Professor of Environmental Policy and Public Policy at Duke University's Nicholas School of the Environment. She specializes in global environmental politics with an emphasis on water and energy. She has co-authored Oil Is Not a Curse: Ownership Structure and Institutions in Soviet Successor States (Cambridge, 2010) and co-edited The Oxford Handbook on Water Politics and Policy (2017).

• 1. Introduction; 2. Energy and Water Flows; 3. The Coal-Water Nexus; 4. Conventional Crude Oil and Tight Oil – Water Nexus; 5. Conventional and Unconventional Natural Gas – Water Nexus; 6. Integration: The Role of Energy on the Anthropogenic Global Water Cycles, References; Index.

'The book would be of value to anybody interested in water or energy, from the undergraduate student to the policy maker to the seasoned scientist.' Jean-Philippe Nicot, Groundwater