News Briefs: Texas Town Creates Emergency Water Reuse Plan

Although water usage in Wichita Falls, Texas, is down by about half compared to last year, conservation efforts are not enough to maintain the city’s drinking water supply. The area is in the midst of a three-year drought, and is 34 inches behind on rainfall for that period.“The citizens of Wichita Falls are doing a superior job of conservation — without that we’d be running through 23 million gallons a day and now, on good days, we’re using half of that,” says Kerry Moroney, consulting engineer for the city. “But we can’t conserve our way out of this.”To combat the