A West Texas board unanimously approved an ambitious new project to drill into a desert aquifer near Van Horn, build a 60-mile pipeline and ship 5.4 million gallons of water a day from the Apache Mountains to the heart of the nation’s most prolific oil field, the Permian Basin, to feed thirsty hydraulic fracturing operations. A West Texas board unanimously approved….

Source: Board approves Dan Hughes’ West Texas water project – Houston Chronicle