Tag: brackish groundwater
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New grant will examine desalination, water reuse as path to sustainable urban water security
The Texas Water Resources Institute is part of a new interdisciplinary research project funded by Texas A&M University’s X-Grants program. Only eight total X-Grant proposals were funded across the university. Dr. Wendy Jepson, professor of geography in Texas A&M’s Department of Geography in the College of Geosciences is leading the project, “Pathways to Sustainable Urban Water Security: Desalination and Water…
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Texas A&M research shows getting energy from oil and gas doesn’t require using fresh groundwater
Oil and gas exploration operations can and must operate under environmentally sound practices and according to a research study at Texas A&M University, hydraulic fracturing in the Eagle Ford Shale in South Texas can lessen its environmental impact by switching from fresh groundwater to abundant supplies of brackish groundwater. Graduate students at the Bush School of…
