Replacing coal with gas or renewables saves billions of gallons of water

ScienceDaily
Oct 21, 2019, 5:13 pm178 pts
The transition from coal to natural gas in the US electricity sector is reducing the industry's water use, research finds. For every megawatt of electricity produced using natural gas instead of coal, the water withdrawn from rivers and groundwater drops by 10,500 gallons, and water consumed for cooling and…

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