TAMU offering water well tests in Ector, Midland counties
Officials are worried that there’s arsenic in some of the estimated 13,500 private water wells in Midland and Ector counties.
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Officials are worried that there’s arsenic in some of the estimated 13,500 private water wells in Midland and Ector counties.
Officials are worried that there’s arsenic in some of the estimated 13,500 private water wells in Ector and Midland counties.
Direct lithium extraction has been touted as a more environmentally friendly way to mine the resource needed for EV batteries. But the technology is largely untested and could impact already limited water supplies in the Southwest.
A new study links geological factors such as faulting and geothermal activity to an elevated risk of arsenic contamination in private wells across the Great Basin.