In Texas, water is the new oil as cities square off over aquifers that may soon dry out

Get the Full StoryTwo cities and the Texas A&M University System are suing to stop a project that would pump up to 89 million gallons per day of groundwater to other boomtowns in Central Texas.

In Central Texas, a bitter fight over a 1 billion water project offers a preview of the future for much of the state as decades of rapid growth push past the local limits of its most vital natural resource.

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