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Research
Program on Energy & Water Sustainability |
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Second
Forum on Energy & Water Sustainability
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When:
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April 10, 2009 |
Where: |
Bren School of Environmental Science & Mgmt.,
UC Santa Barbara |
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Why: |
The First Forum on
Energy & Water Sustainability in 2007 successfully
brought together policy-makers, researchers, energy and
water utilities, as well as other important stakeholders,
to generate a dialog on the various aspects of energy
and water sustainability, considering the important linkages
between these two resources.
The Second Forum on Energy &
Water Sustainability continued this dialog, with a
focus on resource efficiency, and policies that can serve
to accelerate implementation of leading edge technologies
that can produce important co-benefits in terms of the
energy-water nexus. Some of the key questions that were
addressed in the dialog included:
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What are the emerging technologies
that will lead to major leaps in resource efficiency,
for energy and water?
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What are the co-benefits of implementing
these technologies?
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Are there commercial pilot projects
that can serve to evaluate these technologies?
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How are utilities and agencies responding
to the availability of these technologies?
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How can policy programs accelerate
the implementation of the most cost-effective technologies?
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What are other barriers to implementation,
and what are innovative responses to these barriers?
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Topics: |
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Technological solutions to increase
water productivity
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Technological solutions to increase
energy productivity
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Energy-water co-benefits of increasing
resource productivity
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Case Studies of combined energy-water
conservation projects
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Private Sector perspective on energy-water
links
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Public Sector perspective on energy-water
links
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Research Needs
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