It seems water is a lot more important and integral to life than we routinely think.Some years ago, scientists began talking about the water-energy nexus — the idea that it takes water to produce energy and energy to produce water. For example, electric power plants require vast amounts of water for cooling, and meanwhile water and wastewater treatment plants are major consumers of energy.Next to gain attention was the water-food-energy nexus — the idea that farming is the largest consumer of the world’s freshwater and that more than one-fourth of the energy used globally is spent on food production and
