Several years ago, the water-energy nexus became a buzzword. The two were intimately connected, it was said. It takes energy to produce, treat and distribute water. It takes water to produce energy — as in steam to drive power plant turbines and water to cool the power-making machinery.
Now increasingly there’s talk of a larger nexus involving water. Tom Kunetz, Water Environment Federation president, has spoken and written about the people-water nexus.
It starts, he says, “with an understanding of how everyone — not just water sector professionals — is connected to water. People affect water. We degrade water quality, move
