The Texas Living Waters Project hosted “Creating ʻNewʼ Water: Exploring the Options”, the Project’s fifth annual statewide water conference in Austin, Texas in 2005. A broad array of speakers and attendees explored the true “water creating” potential—including the challenges and limitations—of the more popular alternative water management strategies of land stewardship, desalination, rainwater harvesting, and conservation.
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