Colorado River Water Accounting Sankey
From Fei-Ling Tseng’s design blog comes this Sankey diagram. Her post is on some visualizations and infographics done for a project on water economies/ecologies of the Colorado River water system. [See...
View ArticleAlberta Report full of Sankey Diagrams
A recent report prepared by Kumar, Subramanyam and Kabir of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Alberta in Edmonton describes “Development of Energy, Emission and Water Flow...
View ArticleEfficient Water Use in Saudi-Arabia
Consumption of water resources in arid and semi-arid areas has become an important issue over the last years. The Wafeer water conservation project is trying to raise awareness and educate people in...
View ArticleWater Footprint Sankey Diagram
Water footprinting has been a hot topic in the last two or three years. Water use for the production of a product, ot the water consumption of an individual, a business, or a nation are referred to as...
View ArticleFreshwater Consumption and Distribution
The below distribution diagram (aka ‘Spagehetti diagram’) was presented on flowing data. It shows the top 10 nations in regard to freshwater consumption on the left, and the sectors where water is...
View ArticleWater Flows for a Hotel
Just a quick post with a Sankey diagram for water flows in a hotel. Apprently from a research project called Zer0-M. More images here. [See image gallery at www.sankey-diagrams.com] No units for the...
View ArticleUNEP: Nigeria Freshwater Challenge
UNEP’s GRID Arendal web page that “collect[s] and catalogue[s] all graphic products that have been prepared for publications and web-sites from the last 15 years in a wide range of themes related to...
View ArticleSacramento/American River Sankey
From the thesis of architect and designer Gabriel Guerriero comes this beautiful Sankey diagram. Labels show quantitites but I have no information on the unit of measurement. [See image gallery at...
View ArticleEnergy Flows in a Desalination Plant
From a 2006 EU-funded research project called ADU-RES, here is a Sankey diagram from one of their reports (p. 24). It features the energy flows of an autonomous desalination unit based on renewable...
View ArticleTiles Production Water Sankey Diagram
Followup to a 2012 post on water footprint: here is another water flow Sankey diagram, this time from tiles production. [See image gallery at www.sankey-diagrams.com] Consulting firm Ceram calculated a...
View ArticleEnergy Embedded in Water
David Wogan at the Scientific American blogs that “Over 12 percent of all U.S. energy consumption is directly related to water”. This was identified in a 2012 study by researchers of UT Austin. [See...
View ArticleWater and Energy Flows in Production
Dutch tech consulting firm ‘Water and Energy Solutions’ looks at optimization opportunities and cost saving potential in industrial production sites. Their services offer is advertised with this sample...
View ArticleParticipatory Urban Metabolism Information System
Interesting project described in the blog article ‘Understanding your city by understanding its flow: towards Participatory Urban Metabolism Information Systems’ by Sven Eberlein of the Ecocitizen...
View ArticleAte your muesli this morning?
I have talked about a cereals Sankey diagram by INRIA Grenoble a couple of weeks ago in this post. Here are two more Sankey diagrams from the underlying article ‘Etude des flux de céréales à l’echelle...
View ArticleDOE Energy Water Nexus
Via the EDF blog (no, not Electiricité de France, but Environmental Defence Fund) comes this mixed Sankey diagram for energy and water flows in the U.S. in 2011. [See image gallery at...
View ArticleWater Use in Coal Power Plant
This presentation on ‘Water Management for Fossil Energy Systems’ by Susan M. Maley, Technology Manager for Crosscutting Research at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) / National Energy Technology...
View ArticleFuel Cell Technology Sankey Diagram
As you are aware I am constantly looking for samples of Sankey diagrams, be they good, mediocre, or … fair. This 2009 report on fuel cell technology (‘Natural Gas – Fueled Distributed Generation Solid...
View ArticleWater Cycle in the Netherlands by G Singh
Just a quick post before the weekend: Visualization of the water cycle in the Netherlands by Gunjan Singh. See initial sketch and some comments here. [See image gallery at www.sankey-diagrams.com]...
View ArticleWater Use in Qingdao, China
Interesting Sankey diagram on water use in Qingdao, China in 2011. This is from a presentation titled ‘Urban water security – Water-energy-food nexus’ by Josh Weinberg of Stockholm International Water...
View ArticleSpain’s Segura River Water System
This Sankey diagram for the water system of Segura river in Spain shows “the interchanged fluxes between the hydrological and the economical system”. This is an output from the EU-funded ASSET...
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