Jayme Lozano Carver | The Texas Tribune
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A nurse practitioner is returning to his hometown to provide health care as rural hospitals close and it becomes harder to access preventive care.
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Rain is in the forecast across much of the state. But it won’t be enough to reverse the drought that has gripped Texas since last fall.
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While wind farms in the region could help power and lower energy costs for at least 9 million homes, significant infrastructure upgrades would be needed to supply electricity from the region to other parts of the state.
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Until last year, Lubbock residents didn’t get electricity from the main power grid operated by the Electric Reliability Council of Texas. Now, many residents are getting used to requests to limit electricity consumption.
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Texas had 3,866 water boil notices in 2021, the most in the last decade. Aging water systems threaten water supply and quality — and for many small towns across the state, they won’t be cheap to repair.
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The outage left about 165,000 people without water in Odessa and some surrounding areas. It has been attributed to a main line break in the city’s aging water system and comes amid a dayslong heat wave.
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Officials haven’t specified what caused the break, but say the broken line is about 60 years old.