Study examines amount of water needed to produce various types of energy

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One 60-watt incandescent bulb may use up to 6000 gallons of water a year.
One 60-watt incandescent bulb may use up to 6,000 gallons of water a year.

It is easy to overlook that most of the energy we consume daily, such as electricity or natural gas, is produced with the help of a dwindling resource – fresh water. Virginia Tech professor Tamim Younos and undergraduate student Rachelle Hill are researching the water-efficiency of some of the most common energy sources and power generating methods.


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