Swimming in lakes and rivers can carry disease risks, including the dreaded but rare brain-eating amoeba. Here’s expert advice on how you can swim safely.
Water
The Waco Bridge’s coverage of water issues.
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SpaceX McGregor site overpumped aquifer for years, records show
The rocket testing site has blown through its permitted groundwater allowance three years straight. McGregor, the site’s owner, says it has a plan to offset groundwater use and avoid enforcement penalties.
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You asked us questions about data centers. We answered them.
Guests of our Data Center Impacts event this month submitted nearly 50 questions to our expert panel. We’re answering a handful that our panelists couldn’t get to.
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Lacy Lakeview needs Waco’s help to realize its data center dreams. It’s not going well.
Lacy Lakeview’s hasty approach to the data center project has alienated the Waco officials who would control water service to the site.
“Without the City of Waco agreeing to it, Lacy Lakeview can’t do anything out there and neither can Infrakey,” State Rep. Pat Curry said. “Those guys don’t know what the hell they’re doing.”
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Lacy Lakeview council will consider recycling wastewater for data center
Water has been central to the debate over the Infrakey data center project. Lacy Lakeview is exploring recycled wastewater to quench the facility’s thirst for water.
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Texans want their local governments to push pause on data centers. Can they?
Texans from Waco to Harlingen are raising concerns about the energy and water data centers use. Local governments have a few tools to fight them – if they want to.
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Town hall questions on Lake Whitney data center echo McLennan County debate
The project is a fraction of the size of the $10 billion data center that Infrakey is proposing for the Ross area in partnership with the city of Lacy Lakeview. But its impact is expected to be huge in rural Bosque County, which has a population of about 19,000.
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Water, power, politics: Three challenges for the $10B data center project
The Infrakey data center could bring huge tax wealth to Lacy Lakeview and McLennan County, but it would require huge resources.
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Brazos River pecan farm could play outsized role in Waco’s water future
The city of Waco is seeking state approval to pump water out of the Brazos, miles downstream of a riverside property it bought for water rights.
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Gauging Waco’s flood risk: Dams, geography help, but stay alert
Flat terrain and flood control lakes protect Waco from the extremes of flood risk, but planners are learning from the Kerrville disaster
