An alfalfa garden patch grows at the Texas Pacific Water Resources research and development project site outside of Midland. Researchers watered the alfalfa with cleaned produced water from a fracking ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller in his office with Texas flag in background. The state’s two main sources of water — ...

DALLAS — Texas is in the midst of a water crisis, and the state is looking everywhere for new sources of clean water. And when we say everywhere, we mean everywhere. The state is inching closer to ...

CARRIZO SPRINGS — In this South Texas stretch of mesquite trees and cactus, where the land is sometimes too dry to grow crops, the local aquifer is being strained in the search for oil. The reason is ...

Tanks of produced water sit outside the Texas Pacific Water Resources research and development project site as they undergo oxidation using hydrogen peroxide outside of Midland. (Eli Hartman For The ...

When it comes to hydrofracking, it’s the fracturing that gets a lot of the attention, but in fact it’s the hydro part of that is particularly troublesome. Even if fears over the contamination of ...

Family of murder victim learns of arrest from KPRC 2: “Oh my god, I’m happy. Thank you so much.” An alfalfa garden patch grows at the Texas Pacific Water Resources research and development project ...

The state’s two main sources of water — groundwater in aquifers and surface water such as lakes, rivers and reservoirs — are susceptible to depletion from climate change. To combat the state’s looming ...

ODESSA, Texas — Oil and gas companies are seeking legal shelter as Texas comes closer to using waste brine once considered too toxic for anything other than fracking to replenish Texas’ water ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An alfalfa garden patch grows at the Texas Pacific Water Resources research and development project site outside of Midland.

This article is part of Running Out, an occasional series about Texas’ water crisis. Read more stories about the threats facing Texas’ water supply here. MIDLAND On any given day, energy companies ...

MIDLAND — On any given day, energy companies across the vast Permian Basin in West Texas inject millions of gallons of water into the dry brown earth, breaking up layers of rock on the hunt for crude ...