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This chapter addresses the current state of water and energy resources management in different regions of the world using basin-scale case studies from North America, Latin America, and Africa. It focuses on the characterization of the current state and future projections of water and energy resources available in each basin as well as management of information gaps and potential links for integrating water and energy management. Agriculture demands large amounts of water in each basin and tends to be a priority when water distribution decisions are being made. Overall, this chapter provides a worldwide view of the state of water and energy in semiarid regions, showing cases of water management strategies that are being carried out in the case study basins considered in this chapter.
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There is a major exception to the prioritization, the Texas panhandle, the part of the state that uses the most water, prioritizes irrigation above all else. The region relies on the vast Ogallala aquifer for water. The water-energy nexus is a completely different equation there. In the panhandle, the question is “How much energy does it take to pump water from increasing depths?” and “When does it become too expensive to pump from that depth?”
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Metzger, L., Lane, B., Setegn, S.G., Kromann, J., Kilanski, M., MacPhee, D. (2015). International Perspective on the Basin-Scale Water-Energy Nexus. In: Setegn, S., Donoso, M. (eds) Sustainability of Integrated Water Resources Management. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12194-9_25
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