World Water Day research finds 44% of coal plants, and 45% of planned coal power plants, in areas of water stress
Coal power plants use enough water to supply the needs of 1 billion people and that will almost double if all the world’s planned power plants come online.
Almost half the new power plants will be built in areas that are already in high water stress, a report commissioned by Greenpeace says.
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