"Texas' Water Future: More Toilet-To-Tap, Aquifer Storage"

"LUBBOCK, Texas — Texas would rely more on treated toilet water and pumping rainwater into aquifers to serve its booming population over the next half-century under the state's 2017 water plan approved Thursday.

Several years removed from a historic drought that brought more attention to funding water projects, Texas Water Development Board officials unanimously OK'd a $62.6 billion plan that outlines more than 5,500 varying strategies for solving the growing state's water woes.

'This is the best plan yet, in my view,' board chairman Bech Bruun said before the vote in Austin. 'The most comprehensive, detailed plan.'"

Betsy Blaney reports for the Associated Press May 19, 2016.