Sens. Wyden, Murkowski float bill to beef up focus on energy-water nexus

摘要

The top leaders of the Senate's energy panel are looking to increase the federal government's focus on the connections between water and energy. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Chairman Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and ranking member Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) yesterday floated a bill (S. 1971) that would create a panel within the National Science and Technology Committee to coordinate federal activities around the socalled energy-water nexus. Water is vital to energy production. According to a Congressional Research Service report, 7.6 barrels of water is used to produce every barrel of oil from onshore wells in the United States and that ratio is expected to rise to 12-to-1 by 2025.