World’s coal power plants consume enough freshwater to sustain 1 billion people – Greenpeace
Hong Kong, 22 March 2016 – The world’s rapidly dwindling freshwater resources could be further depleted if plans for hundreds of new coal power plants worldwide go ahead, threatening severe drought and competition, according to a new Greenpeace International report. The report is the first global plant-by-plant study of the coal industry’s current and future …