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A226 •Houston TX 7702S • Attn: Talent Search Career Center Texas A&M University A workshop designed to give you an insider's track on how to get a positive start in the working world and succeed in your job. Make the most of your FIRST JOB! Tuesday, April 9 5:30pm Zachry 342 By Mandi Vest THE BATTALION Last weekend, many went to Chilifest or Island Party to experi ence leisure and musical enjoyment in an outdoor setting. Dedicated participants sacrificed comfort and dry clothes due to rain and muddy conditions. While the area from Dallas-Fort Worth down to the Gull Coast is experiencing large amounts of rainfall, much of the state remains dry. Texas rainfall trends present problems for tanners and outdoor concert planners, as well as every residents of the state. “Rain just does not fall in a civilized fashion in Texas,” said Ron Kaiser, a Texas A&M professor who specializes in natural resource law and policy. Kaiser’s main interests are in water management, law and con servation. He has worked with the Texas State Legislature to plan how the state will distribute water in the future. “Right now, Texas has 20 million people and uses about 16.5 mil lion acre-feet of water per year (one acre foot equals 325,000 gal lons of water). Forty years from now it is predicted that the popu lation will double to 40 million. There is not enough water in this state to accommodate that many people with the way it is being dis tributed at this time,” said Kaiser. He said more than half of the water used in Texas is for crop irri gation of the four major crops: cotton, com, wheat and sorghum. In the future, most Texans will live in urban areas, thus cities will have plenty of water but irrigators will not. In drier parts of the state, such as the high plains of West Texas, underground aquifers are the main source of water. Of the ground water extracted, 95 percent is used for crop irrigation. The aquifers cannot be recharged as fast as water is being used because of low amounts of rainfall in the panhandle. Kaiser said the entire state will be different in the future due to growing populations in areas without enough water. “We are growing where'we do not have as much rainfall. It just Annual Rainfall in Texas (as recorded in inches) Matt Kenseth cz at the Texa: less than 8 CHAD MALLAM • THE BAP. does not rain where many of our cities are going,” he said. The problem is that rainfall is not uniform across the state, most eastern part of Texas, annual rainfall can be 60 inds Whereas in West Texas, it can be as little as 6 inches per year. A&M is concerned about water problems in Texas andwoi to alleviate some of them. The Rio Grande Basin Initialiveis joint effort of the Texas Cooperative Extension and fa Agricultural Experiment Station of Texas A&M and the Nt the race, lea\ everyone gues: Space shuttle Atlantis sent into orbit CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Space shut tle Atlantis thundered into orbit Monday with a new part for the international space station, a 44-foot section of latticework that is equipped NEWS IN BRIEF with a railcar and track. Atlantis and its seven astronauts soared into a clear sky at 4:44 p.m., four days late because of a leaky fuel line on the launch pad that had to be repaired. Gusty wind had threatened another delay, but eased by launch time. NASA also worked around a last-minute See Rain on i technical problem and sent Atlantis on its waj with just 11 seconds to spare in its five-minute launch window. • “You spent a few extra days in Florida, but it's time for you guys to take a ride, launch director Mike Leinbach told the astronauts shortly before liftoff. "So we wish you luck.” FORT WOI [-Maybe prac Matt Ken [Samsung/Radii Monday despi [five laps in p Motor Speedw His few 1 came Frit before he blev engine. 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