Hoover Dam / Sydney Harbour / Power Plant Cooling / MW Coal Plant / /
IndustryTerm
food chain / Air pollution control systems / heavy-metal contaminated waste / dry cooling systems / coal mining regions / large-scale coal mining bases / energy generation / near mountaintop removal mining / human organ systems / energy / mountaintop mining / electricity / electricity generation / food production / Coal mining expansion / electricity production / mining / once-through cooling systems / chemicals / coal mining / removal mining / /
NaturalFeature
Emory River / Vaal River / Athabasca River / Yellow River / /
OperatingSystem
Fork / /
Organization
Grace Communications Foundation / South African Water Ministry / US Department of Energy / World Resources Centre / Sierra Club / US Environmental Protection Agency / Union of Concerned Scientists / Congress / Waterkeeper Alliance / Coal Activist Resource Centre / Greenpeace / Greenpeace India Society / Chinese government / /
Person
Melissa M. Ahern / Keith J. Zullig / Alan Ducatman / Evan Fedorko / Melissa Ahern / Jamison Conley / Jai Krishna / Owen Pascoe / Michael Hendryx / Lauri Myllyvirta / /
Position
farmer / official / /
Product
MW Coal Plant Consumption vs. / water / Olympic-sized swimming pool amount of water / water with disastrous impacts / drinking water / wells / waste / fish / munities / water.10 Communities / /
ProvinceOrState
Tennessee / /
PublishedMedium
Environmental Research Letters / Environmental Research / The Guardian / /
COAL FACTSHEET #3 INSATIABLE THIRST How Coal Consumes and Contaminates Our Water The 2008 Kingston coal ash spill in Tennessee, USA dumped 3.8 billion litres of coal ash slurry into the Emory River. Photo: Dot Griffith