India’s lack of water will drive the need for solar and wind energy more than concerns over climate change will, according to a report released Tuesday.
More than 80 percent of the subcontinent’s electricity comes from power plants that require freshwater cooling, which presents a problem since a lack of water was the prime culprit for some power plants shutting down over the last five years, according to the World Resources Institute, a nonpartisan environmental think tank in Washington.
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