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Thermal power plants rely on water for cooling, which means droughts can push generation offline. In India, reports describe this vulnerability—itself just another reason to speed the transition to renewables.

Nearly all of the world's electrical generation relies in one way or another on water. Climate change will stress water resources, potentially undermining the power sector.

This Infrastructure Week, it's time to look beyond building new pipes and pumps. Growing, restoring and preserving America's "natural infrastructure" like forests can help secure clean water supplies.

A new generation of corporate water targets will take the local context, the most recent science and stakeholder needs into account.

Civil society groups can enhance environmental and economic outcomes by connecting communities with expertise and formal decision-making processes.

Water’s usability doesn’t need to end once it's flushed down the drain. Rather, India can see industrial and domestic wastewater as a valuable resource from which water, nutrients and even renewable energy can be extracted.

It’s fitting that International Day of Forests (March 21) and World Water Day (March 22) fall next to each other, as the health of these resources often go hand-in-hand.

You wouldn't drink wastewater, but it can be converted into a valuable energy source. In fact, some are already trying it, with promising results.