Nuclear, coal, and fuel farming all are dependent on massive quantities of water.  Polluting and contaminating it all the way.  4.5 gallons of water are wasted per gallon of ethanol gas guzzling.

Wind pumped hydro power storage could capture flood waters in wetlands to serve as extra hydro dam power and a backup for river flow levels.  Low levels threaten endangered species, mainly fish, in these river ecosystems.

Extra wetland/resevoirs restore groundwater aquifers, depleted by irrigation and backsup rivers depleted by metroplolitan water use.

Solar power can be used to recycle city water and other water conservation techniques, like drip irrigation and manure/biomass/biogas production save and recycle huge amounts of water while actually increasing agricultural production and quality.

These new, improved nuclear reactors that use no water?  Well, give the nuclear industry time to build a few of these, that also reprocess nuclear waste.  In 10 years rexamine the issue of nuclear power, after the data from these fully functrional experimental reactors is available.

A completey transparent process that the public can trust would be needed.  These must be sabotage and theft (of nuclear materials) proof too.  It's a big design challenge.  I think it is more likely that renewable smart grids, conservation devices, organic farming, and plugin hybrid transportation will beat nuclear in terms of time to deploy, cost, and safety.

And economic revival.  Instead of trillions of dollars to nuclear contractors.  The money would go to local businesses.  The gallon of gas you buy now, from oil company mega multinational taps, replaced by 75 cents worth of electricity bought from a farm down the road, over the smart grid.  Or free from the solar panels on your home.

Anyway, the money would now stay in the local community, instead of in Dubai.  That is anti-globalization.  Relocalization.  It magnifies throughout the local economy, from business to employee to business..  and so forth.

Nuclear and coal power dissappears the cash into shady multinational corporations that bribe local governments to pollute and contaminate at will.  Agribizz mega lobbyistys get the cash from fuel farming.  Destroying conservation carbon sink land to guzzle more gas.  But it's a green gas?  Duuuh..