• Big Spring, Texas to recycle urine

    ByChillymanjaro

    The drought in Texas has gotten so severe municipal water managers have turned to a once untenable idea: recycling sewage water. Water for the town’s 27,000 residents comes through the Colorado River Municipal Water District, which has broken ground on a plant to

  • Texas suffers from “exceptional” drought

    ByChillymanjaro

    A report released Thursday from a consortium of national climate experts said Texas saw the highest levels of drought over the last week — rated as "exceptional" — jump from 43.97 percent of the state to 50.65 percent of the state. Devastating drou