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RENSSELAER — In 2012, wells went dry in the small town of Parr.
The state is courting high-tech investments, but a new industrial park may lack enough water. Opponents say piping it from miles away might dry out residential wells.
When Indiana officials created a new industrial park to lure huge microchip firms to the state, they picked a nearly 10,000-acre site close to a booming metropolis, a major airport and a university research center. But the area is missing one key ingredient to support the kinds of development the state wants to attract: access to the huge amounts of water that microchip makers might need. Officials floated a plan to pipe in enormous volumes of water from an aquifer about 40 miles away. But the p
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