{"id":11713,"date":"2012-05-30T15:51:21","date_gmt":"2012-05-30T20:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/?p=11713"},"modified":"2012-05-30T15:51:26","modified_gmt":"2012-05-30T20:51:26","slug":"new-water-center-aims-to-help-with-states-struggles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2012\/05\/30\/new-water-center-aims-to-help-with-states-struggles\/","title":{"rendered":"New Water Center Aims to Help With State&#8217;s Struggles"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11754\" class=\"module image aligncenter mceTemp mceIEcenter\" style=\"width: 594px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2012\/05\/30\/new-water-center-aims-to-help-with-states-struggles\/a-woman-is-sprayed-with-cold-water-to-co\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11754\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11754\" title=\"A woman is sprayed with cold water to co\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/05\/117712224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"594\" height=\"273\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/05\/117712224.jpg 594w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/05\/117712224-300x137.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Photo by ADRIAN DENNIS\/AFP\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>A coalition of Texas institutions announced a <a href=\"http:\/\/today.agrilife.org\/2012\/05\/29\/water-conservation-and-technology-center-to-focus-on-statewide-water-issues\/\">new water conservation and technology center <\/a>today. It&#8217;s a group effort, headed by\u00a0Texas AgriLife Research, Texas AgriLife Extension Service, Texas Engineering Experiment Station, and Texas A&amp;M University-San Antonio.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Neal Wilkins, the director of the Texas Water Resources Institute, hopes that the new center will put the development of new technologies on the fast track to solving the state&#8217;s evolving water challenges.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe center will accelerate the development and adoption of new and innovative technologies to solve emerging water problems and meet future water supply needs,\u201d he said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the center will target four research areas: water conservation, water reuse, groundwater desalination, and energy development.<\/p>\n<p>Among some of the first issues on the table is the link between energy development and water use.\u00a0<!--more-->&#8220;We want to see economic development via energy resource exploration continue but in an environmentally friendly manner,&#8221; Skip Mills, the Director of the San Antonio Texas Center for Applied Technology, told StateImpact Texas.<\/p>\n<p>The center wants to help better connect industry, state and federal agencies, municipalities, trade associations, and other research institutions on water issues.<\/p>\n<h5><em>Sheyda Aboii is an intern with StateImpact Texas.\u00a0<\/em><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by ADRIAN DENNIS\/AFP\/Getty Images A coalition of Texas institutions announced a new water conservation and technology center today. It&#8217;s a group effort, headed by\u00a0Texas AgriLife Research, Texas AgriLife Extension Service, Texas Engineering Experiment Station, and Texas A&amp;M University-San Antonio. Dr. Neal Wilkins, the director of the Texas Water Resources Institute, hopes that the new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":82,"featured_media":11754,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[58],"tags":[61,85],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11713"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/82"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}