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

Fast Company Tech

Five years ago, San Antonio started pumping up to 49 million gallons per day through a 140-mile pipeline from the Carrizo Wilcox Aquifer. That same year, San Antonio, 140 miles away, announced plans to import 49 million gallons per day from wells in Lee County on the site of an old Alcoa aluminum smelter.

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Sen. Ed Markey on the politics of technology

The Verge

And in Congress, we have a free throw shooting contest every year, and I hit 47 out of 50 free throws! Ma, I’m at a free throw shooting contest in the House of Representatives.” And I actually was doing a shooting contest with Enes Kanter of the Celtics two weeks ago. And California has adopted a version of that.