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Fracking has dramatically increased the demand for water in the nation’s most productive oil field, Texas’ Permian Basin. Water usage has already risen…
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In arid west Texas, where rain is infrequent and rivers and lakes are few, groundwater – water from sources beneath the surface of the earth – is key to…
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Almost a decade after filing its first application, the family of oilman Clayton Williams has been granted a permit to pump millions of gallons of water…
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On this episode of West Texas Talk, Elise sits down with Robert Potts, the President and CEO of the Dixon Water Foundation. There's a famous Mark Twain…
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On this episode of West Texas Talk, we hear from Jack Sharp, he's a professor of hydrogeology at the University of Texas at Austin. Part of Sharp's area…
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Oilman Clayton Williams’ fight to sell water from Pecos County to Midland-Odessa isn’t quite over yet. Ed McCarthy, an attorney for Williams and his water…
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In part one of our series on local histories in the Trans-Pecos region, we learned how Presidio’s very existence is tied to its strategic location on the…
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The search for new water sources is never-ending for growing cities in the desert Southwest. Traditional sources like rivers and underground aquifers are…
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Treading West Texas Waters is a film that explores the wide variety of water issues affecting West Texans and the state as a whole. In the documentary…
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In a Midland County neighborhood just south of Interstate 20, residents have been warned not to drink from their tap water. This comes after routine tests…