Water and Energy

Reviews & Endorsements 
“Professor Olssons book, Water and Energy Threats and Opportunities, the result of a meticulous multi-year effort, meets an important and growing need: to define and illuminate the critical linkage between water and energy. He explores the water-energy nexus in detail, and carefully discusses its many implications, including for food production and its connection to global climate change. He properly and repeatedly emphasizes the important message that water and energy issues must be addressed together if society is to make wise and efficient use of these critical resources. Given its comprehensive scope and careful scholarship, the book will serve as a valuable addition to the libraries of students, researchers, practitioners, and government officials at all levels. In its expanded and updated second edition it adds a clear and comprehensive discussion of the important subject of fracking which has recently emerged as a major public issue." DR. ALLAN R. HOFFMAN, Senior Analyst, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, U.S. Department of Energy, Washington, DC. 
“This second edition of the book is much more than a revision of data, style and contents. It extends significantly some key topics, and adds new information about current issues in the nexus of water and  energy, such as water footprint, fracking, oil exploitation in the Arctic Sea, and many others. One of the most brilliant aspects of Gustaf's writing is his ability to pay attention and question unobtrusively our role as citizens, to face the complexity of these environmental aspects and their implications. Gustaf argues the situation with authority, summoning up examples and illustrations that are helpful in challenging our knowledge, but also our thinking, feeling and behaving.” PROFESSORS MANEL POCH, JOAQUIM COMAS and IGNASI RODRIGUEZ-RODA, Catalan Institute for Water Research and LEQUiA - University of Girona, Catalonia. 
“Prof Olsson has pioneered into a new knowledge territory by combining water and energy into a subject by its own. In reality, water and energy should not be separated in terms of academic discipline, sector administration, policy framework or business portfolio. Wherever we need water, energy is to be coupled as common utilities for residential, commercial or industrial development. Prof Olsson has demonstrated his mastery of water-energy nexus in this book.” PROFESSOR ZAINI UJANG, President and Vice-Chancellor Emeritus, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. 
"Gustaf Olsson illustrates the inextricable linkage between water and energy, and demonstrates that an integrated and holistic approach as well as a change of attitude is necessary to solve the complex water and energy challenges we are facing. This book is full of enlightenment." JINING CHEN, President and Professor, Tsinghua University, Beijing. 
"Water and Energy - Threats and Opportunities by Emeritus Professor Gustaf Olson is a milestone book in the efficient use of two important resources: water and energy. It is remarkable that due to increasing specialization among professionals in the different fields, water and energy are not optimized jointly. The production of energy requires water, while the supply of water services demands energy. Water and energy are the drivers for almost all economic activities, and are of such importance that they are at the origin of conflicts throughout the world." BLANCA JIMINEZ CISNEROS, Director of the Division of Water Sciences, UNESCO, Paris. 
"This book comes at the right time. Conflicts about hydropower projects …New perspective on waste water as an energy source … growing dependence from seawater desalination for cities in arid areas…these are warning signals that water and energy security are increasingly linked.   Gustaf Olsson’s work is a precious reference, encompassing the complexity of the subject and providing a wealth of data. Because he has shared his career between energy and water management, Gustaf Olsson has a balanced and wide ranging perspective." JACQUES LABRE, Co-ordinator of Thematic Priority Harmonize energy and water, at the 6th World Water Forum (Marseilles, March 2012). 
"In producing his latest book, Water and Energy, Professor Olsson has put together an extremely valuable compendium of vital information and insights into the highly crucial relationship between two essential in modern life water and energy. In so doing, Professor Olsson is providing the largely separate communities of both water professionals and energy professional with a foundation for jointly understanding, simplifying and in many cases demystifying the myriad of water and energy interfaces. When one considers the significant carbon footprint of water production, use and treatment and the even more significant water footprint of energy production and use, the contribution of Professor Olsson’s book will be greatly appreciated in helping to illuminate the pathway ahead a pathway that will lead us to conquer the essential challenge of making the use of water and energy both and jointly, an order of magnitude more efficient than today." PAUL D. REITER, Former Executive Director, International Water Association. 
“In authoring the book 'Water and Energy Threats and Opportunities' Professor Gustaf Olsson provided a comprehensive and equally impressive guide in to the critical and many times complex relationship of energy and water. The book provided detailed insights to all parts of what is normally referred to as the 'water and energy nexus'; such as different drivers for water and energy, different impacts on water resources from types of energy generation, technology options as well as suggesting steps to be taken in order to better address emerging challenges. The dynamic relationship between water and energy is under constant change and evolvement as demand for different fuel types emerges, new technologies are employed and science makes breakthroughs. This second edition of the book captures many of these changes offering even more depth and width to the reader as professor Olsson once again delivers a key product enabling better understanding of the water and energy nexus.” ANDREAS LINDSTRÖM, Unit leader, Water-Energy-Food, Stockholm International Water Institute.