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    The document summarizes how energy, water, and farming influence the water-energy-food nexus in different regions and countries. Key points include: - Midwestern US farmers rely on hydroelectric power to pump water for irrigation, depleting the Ogallala Aquifer water supply. Biofuels also require water and energy inputs. - Infrastructure like dams, canals, and desalination plants in countries like the US, Egypt, and Israel provide water but require energy to construct and operate. - Agriculture is a major influence as well, with farming practices in the US, UK, and Israel impacting water usage and supplies, and activities like fertilizer usage polluting shared resources like the Mississippi

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    The document summarizes how energy, water, and farming influence the water-energy-food nexus in different regions and countries. Key points include: - Midwestern US farmers rely on hydroelectric power to pump water for irrigation, depleting the Ogallala Aquifer water supply. Biofuels also require water and energy inputs. - Infrastructure like dams, canals, and desalination plants in countries like the US, Egypt, and Israel provide water but require energy to construct and operate. - Agriculture is a major influence as well, with farming practices in the US, UK, and Israel impacting water usage and supplies, and activities like fertilizer usage polluting shared resources like the Mississippi

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    NEXUS Sorting

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    The document summarizes how energy, water, and farming influence the water-energy-food nexus in different regions and countries. Key points include: - Midwestern US farmers rely on hydroelectric power to pump water for irrigation, depleting the Ogallala Aquifer water supply. Biofuels also require water and energy inputs. - Infrastructure like dams, canals, and desalination plants in countries like the US, Egypt, and Israel provide water but require energy to construct and operate. - Agriculture is a major influence as well, with farming practices in the US, UK, and Israel impacting water usage and supplies, and activities like fertilizer usage polluting shared resources like the Mississippi

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    NEXUS SORTING EXERCISE

    Add the sentences below to the table in one of the four available boxes.

    How ENERGY influences the nexus mix How WATER influences the nexus mix
    These Mid-West farmers (USA) rely on The Hoover Dam is on the Colorado river,
    hydro electric power to pump the water up which is fed by snow in the Rocky Mts
    to the surface The depletion of the Olgallala Aquifer in the
    Biofuel needs water and energy to grow USA could threaten food supply
    UK water supply needs energy to construct Israel’s National Water Carrier (canal)
    infrastructure and drive pumps supplies the local farms (called kibbutzim)
    If there is sufficient power, desalination can
    provide extra water for Israel’s food
    production
    The Aswan Dam (Egypt) rarely works at full
    capacity due to low water levels

    How FARMING influences the nexus mix Other (eg technology)


    Nebraska farmers (USA) are using up the Technological advance led to the Hoover
    water supply underground Dam being built for water supply
    US agriculture is highly mechanized, Israel imports food to save its own water
    accustomed to high energy inputs supply (the food implies embedded water)
    Innovation in Israel has led to the
    Much US farmland is used to make ethanol development of drip irrigation
    (a biofuel) from corn Using watermills on UK rivers is a centuries-
    The Mississippi river (USA) is polluted by old way of driving machinery
    fertiliser run-off causing eutrophication Climate change in the UK could lead to soil
    UK climate and farming types could shift drought
    200km northwards UK climate change could increase pests
    which affect agriculture

    Fossil fuel demand for fertilizer could


    increase in the UK because of soil
    drought

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