There’s no water in Texas. NONE! Plenty on Mars, but not a ton
’round here. A few days ago, we learned that the drought pushed
one Texas inventor to create a machine that turns AIR into WATER
(otherwise known to most humans as an air conditioner). You can
own this modern marvel for $499. (Legionnaires Disease
optional.) But the cheaper solution would be to just drink your
own waste. The ULTIMATE natural resource: plentiful, abundant
and with minimal negative impact of the world around us. It
ain’t rocket science, NASA has been doing it for years. And now
one Texas town is offering up tall cold glasses of refreshing
wastewater. Welcome to Big Spring, Texas! Water for the town’s
27,000 residents comes through the Colorado River Municipal
Water District, which has broken ground on a plant to capture
treated wastewater for recycling. “We’re taking treated effluent
(wastewater), normally discharged into a creek, and blending it
with (traditionally supplied potable) water,” district manager
John Grant told Discover