Quantifying WEF Interdependencies for Mitigating Resource Uncertainties in Developing Countries
Afreen Siddiqi, Ph.D.
Research Scientist, MITVisiting Scholar, Harvard Kennedy School
Risk Governance Research Workshop
Lisbon, Instituto Superior Tecnico, June 25, 2014
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Understanding and accounting for these interconnections is important for resource use-efficiency, socio-economic growth, and
long term sustainability
Food, water, and energy are increasingly inter-linked across different segments of their value chains
water is used in extracting and processing fossil fuel, and cooling electric power plants
energy is needed for pumping ground water, desalination, distribution, and treatment
energy is used to power agricultural machinery, process and transport food
adoption of bio-fuel has raised concerns for adequate food supply and use of water
Increased demands and new technologies have created the ‘water-energy-food’ nexus
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World Economic Forum: Global Risks Assessment 2011
The water-food-energy nexus
A cluster of risks within 37 selected global risks as seen by members of the World
Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Councils and supported by a survey of 580 global leaders
and decision-makers
Demand for water, food and energy is expected to rise by 30-50% in the next two decades
Economic disparities incentivize short-term responses in production and consumption that undermine long term sustainability
Shortages could cause social and political instability, geopolitical conflict and irreparable environmental damage.
Any strategy that focuses on one part of the water-energy-food nexus without considering its interconnections risks serious unintended consequences
Source: Global Risks 2011, World Economic Forum.
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Journal publication trends in Compendex database show emergence of ‘nexus’ research on water, energy, and food
water OR energy OR food AND nexus
water AND energy AND nexus
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GDP
AGRICULTURE
SERVICES
INDUSTRY
POPULATION: 180 MILLION POPULATION GROWTH RATE: 1.8%
82% URBAN
20.1%
25.5%
54.4%
Siddiqi, A., Wescoat, J. L., (2013), “Energy use in large-scale irrigated agriculture in the Punjab province of Pakistan”, Water International, 38 (5), pp 571-586. (*Editors Choice Article)
Indus River Basin in Pakistan
Punjab
Sindh
KPK
Balochistan
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We base our analysis on the Indus basin in Pakistan a country of 180 million people intimately dependent on the Indus
river for water, food, and energy
human impact
acute shortage of energy and water, and insufficient access to nutrition
necessary conditions present for action
major institutional re-structuring and infrastructure planning under-way
finite possibility of implementing solutions
Research Q: What is the energy intensity in large-scale irrigated agriculture in Pakistan?
7http://www.fao.org/nr/water/aquastat/irrigationmap/index10.stmSource: FAO
Global Map of Irrigation
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length (km) : 3,180 annual flow (km3) : 207Avg. Discharge (m3/s) : 6600Basin Area (km2) : 1,005,786Total Population (Million) : 237Basin Precipitation (mm/yr): 423
Source: Laghari et al. Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 16, 2012: 1063-1083.
The Indus Basin
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Low precipitation and high ET render the region largely arid.
Rain fed agriculture is limited.
Ref: Laghari et al. Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 16, 2012: 1063-1083.
Large part of the Indus Basin is arid
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Despite the aridity, the area is a major agricultural region through irrigation
Image by James Wescoat
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Key Features of Surface Irrigation System
~129 km3 of water is diverted annually to the canal network for irrigating 44 million acres
There are large delivery losses (40% – 60%) in the surface system that has led to expansion of pumped irrigation
Indus basin irrigation system is among the world’s largest network of surface canals
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The linear trend for Rabi is an average decrease of 252 Billion CM per yearThe overall trend is a decrease of 182 Billion Cubic meters each year for canal withdrawals in Punjab
Kharif (summer)
Rabi (winter)
Canal water availability has declined over past decades(largely during the winter cropping season)
Total (annual)
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Tubewells in 1995 Tubewells in 2010
Dot Density:1 dot = 500 Tubewells
A conjunctive irrigation system has emerged with surface and ground water use that now depends on energy
Using district level tubewell installation data, we used GIS Mapping to map pumping density in Punjab
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Acute energy shortages are impacting all sectors of the economy
Estimated Electricity Deficit in 2011
Energy Shortage Context in Pakistan
Siddiqi, et. al, “An empirical analysis of the hydropower portfolio in Pakistan”, Energy Policy, Vol. 50, 2012
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off-grid distributed system
A massive pumping system draws water from the ground to augment surface water supplies for agriculture
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Reported data of energy use in agriculture provides only partial information of total energy used in the sector
Data Source: Energy Year Book, HDIP (2010, 2012)
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Top down data coupled with bottom up calculations were used to estimate energy use in agriculture
High Speed Diesel (HSD)
Light Diesel Oil (LDO)
Electricity
Tractors (< 55 HP)
Tractors (> 55 HP)
HSD Tube wells
LDO Tube wells
Electric Tube wells
Field Operations
Water Pumping
Fuel Type Farm Machinery Farm Operationsdirect energy use
Natural GasFertilizer
ProductionFertilizer
Application
in- direct energy use
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Pumping system and farming machinery stock levels used for bottom up estimation of HSD consumption
Operation and usage data obtained from Punjab Agricultural Machinery Census of 1994 and 2004
Annual fuel use volume (Vkfuel) for each type of element (power
level and fuel use type) was estimated as:
where:
Sk: stock level of machinery in year k
cfuel: fuel consumption /hr
U: annual utilization
t: operating hours per day
d: number of operating days per year
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Vfuel
k = S k × c fuel ×U k
U = t × d
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Benchmarking of the results showed reasonable agreement with reported data
The ratio of HSD motors used for water pumping changes from 24% (of total installed base) in 1994 census to 80% in the 2004 census.
This shift in fuel type contributes to steady decline of LDO sales
We compared country-level results of Pak-IEM model (which is MARKAL adapted for Pakistan)
Agriculture Energy Use (2007)
Pak-IEM Estimate (Pakistan)
Pak-IEM derived estimate for Punjab
MIT Study data and results
Electricity 0.8 Mtoe 0.8 X 0.47 = 370 ktoe
312 ktoe
LDO 0.1 Mtoe 0.1 X 0.9 = 90 ktoe
81 ktoe
HSD 2.7 Mtoe - 2.4 Mtoe
Source: Pakistan Integrated Energy Model (Pak-IEM) – Final Report Vol. I, 2010
ElectricityLDOHSD
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Water pumping is estimated to account for 61% of direct energy use in 2010 in farm-level operations
HSD TW pumping
Electric pumping
LDO TW pumping
field (HSD tractor) operations
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Reported estimates for agriculture (that exclude HSD) show only a 3% share in total energy use in the province in 2010
Reported Energy Use in Sectors (Punjab) [kToe]
Domestic: 1764Industry: 1785Agriculture: 467Commercial: 287Transport: 5265Power: 5305Other: 366
Estimation Adjusted Energy Use in Sectors (Punjab) [kToe]
Domestic: 1764Industry: 1785Agriculture: 3118Commercial: 287Transport: 2634Power: 5305Other: 366
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Water, food, and energy security is about human welfare –the resource-use efficiency needs to be improved
At the provincial level in Punjab (between 1995-2010):
Direct energy intensity has risen 80% (from 1 to 1.8 MJ per kg of crop produced)
Fertilizer use intensity has risen 85% from 99 kg/ha to 184 kg/ha
Total crop production has increased only 31%
“Due to declining performance of the sector, as well as increased cost of inputs and inflation, the cost of food per head in the province has gone beyond Rs.3000 [$30] per month” (DAWN, March 25, 2013)
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Future work: Integrated modeling of water, energy, crop production, for water, food, and energy security
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In principle, policy makers acknowledge importance of integrated planning; in practice it has been hard to do so due to technical and institutional hurdles
Knowledge gap in resource inter-linkages is a major impediment towards improved policy
Strategic organizational linkages, and enhanced rules for infrastructure planning and resource policy can be easy first steps towards improving decision-making
Summary
“The vast gains in human welfare from improved provision of food, energy and water – and the spectre of losing this access through shortsighted policies that fail to recognize the complex interactions of these three issues – suggest that the Energy Water Food nexus must be prioritized both by the analytical policy-support community and policy-makers” (Bazilian et al, Energy Policy, 2011)
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QUESTIONS?
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HSD and LDO
Two main grades of diesel fuel are marketed in India and Pakistan, High Speed Diesel (HSD) and Light diesel oil (LDO).
HSD is a 100% distillate fuel while LDO is a blend of distillate fuel with a small proportion of residual fuel.
HSD is normally used as a fuel for high speed diesel engines operating above 750 rpm i.e. buses, lorries, generating sets, locomotives, pumping sets etc. Gas turbine requiring distillate fuels normally make use of HSD as fuel.
LDO is used for diesel engines, generally of the stationery type operating below 750 rpm
Ref: http://www.petroleumbazaar.com/hsd/hsdappli1.htm
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Energy estimates for agriculture show that the sector accounted for 20% of total energy use in Punjab in 2010
Energy Use in Sectors (Punjab) [kToe]
Domestic: 1764Industry: 1785Agriculture: 3118Commercial: 287Transport: 2634*Power: 5305Other: 366
Total: 15259
Water pumping (~1909 kToe) is 12% of total energy use in the province in 2010.
Farm operations with tractors (~ 1209 kToe) is 8% of total energy use in 2010.
*HSD use estimate for agriculture was subtracted from official HSD transport numbers keeping the reported total energy use for the province
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Benefits of more holistic policy & regulatory design would likely be:
economic efficiency resource efficiency improved livelihood options and public health
Negative consequences can include
impacts on communities commodity prices sub-optimal infrastructure design environmental degradation
Energy, water, food policy have interwoven concerns from ensuring access to price volatility to environmental impacts
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Surface irrigation system serves to redistribute meltwaters as ground water recharge
1. http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/Monsoon/printall.php
Snow and icemelt from glaciers
Large surface storage Extensive distribution network
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Benefits of more holistic policy &
regulatory design would likely be:
economic efficiency resource efficiency improved livelihood options and public health
Negative consequences can include
impacts on communities commodity prices sub-optimal infrastructure design environmental degradation
Energy, water, food policy have interwoven concerns from ensuring access to price volatility to environmental impacts
Bazilian et al., “Considering the energy, water and food nexus: Towards an integrated modelling approach”, Energy Policy, 2011
All three areas : have many billions of people without access
(quantity or quality or both) have rapidly growing global demand have resource constraints
have different regional availability, supply, and demand
operate in heavily regulated markets are ‘‘global goods’’, involve international trade
and have global implications
have deep security issues as they are fundamental to the functioning of society
require the explicit identification and treatment of risks
have strong interdependencies with climate change and the environment
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Background
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The shift from gravity-fed, surface water to pumped ground water and pressurized field application systems has increased the coupling between water and energy in large-scale irrigation
70% of global freshwater use is in the agricultural sector
Rainfed agriculture covers 80% of cultivated land globally, and produces 60% of crops
Irrigated agriculture represents 20% of cultivated land and accounts for 40% of crop production irrigated agriculture grew 1.5% annually from 1950s-1990s
Un-reliable surface water supplies increasingly replaced with ground water withdrawals – a shift that requires more energy
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Glacier Area %
Future Work:Incorporating Water Availability Uncertainties
Planning for uncertainty in water availability– shifts from historical norms – Indus is considered one of the most vulnerable rivers to climate
change – decreases in surface water supplies will likely further increase pumped irrigation
32[1] Himalayan Glaciers, National Research Council, 2012[2] Pakistan’s Water Economy: Running Dry, John Briscoe, Oxford Univ. Press, 2006
Expected shifts in annual influx in the Indus River [2]
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World Economic Forum: Global Risks
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Quantitative Modeling and Analysis of Complex Systems for Data-driven Planning and Decision-Making
Investigating interactions between large-scale, critical infrastructure systems (such as that of water, energy, and agriculture) with the aim of informing policy, planning, and design for improving resource use efficiency and enabling long-term sustainability
Decision Analysis
Dependency Structure Mapping Graph Theory & Networks Analysis
Systems Dynamics
Modeling and Computation
Stakeholders Analysis
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Urban Water-Energy Couplings
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ProblemQuantifying water-energy couplings at urban-scale
Approach Building-level temporal computation of water use and related energy consumption
ImpactSynergies for water and energy infrastructure planning, higher efficiencies, improved architectural decisions
Uncertainty Drivers:Population GrowthClimate Change
Factors:Urban FormWater ScarcitySystem Architecture
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Urban Water Cycle: Masdar City, UAE
Siddiqi, A., de Weck, O.L., (2013) “Quantifying End-Use Energy Intensity of the Urban Water Cycle”, ASCE Journal of Infrastructure Systems, 19 (4), pp 474-485
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Building level water sources modeled in the study include municipal water, rainwater, and recycled grey water
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Energy needs for Building-level Water Use
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building height1 2 4 4 4 4 3 4 4 4 4
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recycled wastewater1 2 3
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3. Energy for On-site Recycling
4. Building-level Energy for Water Use:
VH : volume of heated waterρ : density of waterc : specific heat capacityΔT : temperature differenceαhi : ith application hot water fractionvi : ith application water use volumeer : energy intensity of recyclinghF : floor heightαl : pipe lossesF : total number of floors in building
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Computational Framework
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Sample Outputs
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Case Study: Masdar City
Masdar City is in the out-skirts of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
It is 6 km2 , planned to house 50,000 people, 1500 businesses, and a technical university.
Initial cost estimates were at $22 billion and development time was ~10 years
It was originally targeted to be the world’s first zero-carbon city
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Masdar City: Plot-level Master Plan
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Energy for all Water Segments
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Estimate for Masdar City
Annual Water Demand [Million m3]
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[G
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Energy by Water Segment
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Estimated Annual Energy Requirement In Water Cycle for Masdar
Water Demand Scenario
GW
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Comparison of Energy Intensity of Masdar Water Cycle
Comparative Analysis
Across the range of water demand scenarios considered, the energy intensity for Masdar City is ~5-7 kWh/m3
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End-use segment compares almost equally in energy intensity with production segment (in case of Masdar)
Water heating – even in hot climates- makes up a large share of water-related energy use in buildings
Water efficiency in end-use segment is a high-impact lever for influencing energy consumption in the urban water cycle– water efficiency in end-use has largest multiplier effect for energy– water conservation measures can be incentivized from an energy and financial savings
perspectives
Water-sector energy efficiency incentives should be targeted for both utilities and end-users
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Summary
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Energy for Large-Scale Irrigation
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ProblemQuantifying energy intensity of large-scale irrigation.
Approach Water and energy stocks and flows in natural and engineered system; relating water efficiency and energy efficiency.
ImpactApplication to IBIS investment decisions and infrastructure planning ($30 billion currently planned)
Major Reservoirs: 3No. of Barrages: 16No. of Inter-link Canals: 12No. of Canal Systems: 44No. of Water Courses: 107,000Avg. Canal Diversions: 104.7 MAFGroundwater Abstraction: 42 MAFNo. of Wells: > 750,000Canal Command: 36 M acres
Indus Basin Irrigation System (IBIS)
IBIS – DistributoryNetwork
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Large-scale irrigated agriculture is at the core of this nexus
We base our analysis on the Indus basin in Pakistan a country of 180 million people
intimately dependent on the Indus river for water, food, and energy
human impact
acute shortage of energy and water, and in-sufficient access to nutrition
necessary conditions present for action
major institutional re-structuring and infrastructure planning under-way
finite possibility of implementing solutions
length (km) : 3,180 annual flow (km3) : 207Avg. Discharge (m3/s) : 6600Basin Area (Million km2) : 1Total Population (Million) : 237Precipitation (mm/yr): 423
Ref: Laghari et al. Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 16, 2012: 1063-1083.
http://www.fao.org/nr/water/aquastat/irrigationmap/index10.stm
Research Q: How are energy intensity and water use efficiency coupled in large-scale irrigated agriculture?