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Rembrandt T-STEM ECHS senior takes on real world challenges during Subiendo Academy

Empowering students to tackle on real world challenges in healthcare, energy/ environment, and education all while gaining leadership skills is the focus of UT-Austin’s Subiendo Academy. For Rembrandt T-STEM Early College High School senior, Melanie Mejia, Subiendo Academy proved to fulfill this and much more.

Simple tips to conserve water during Texas summers

Summertime calls for frequent and substantial uses of water to keep ourselves, our food and our lawns healthy. According to the Texas Water Development Board, the largest use of water is for irrigation, making up 59% of the state’s total water use. Conserving water today will save you money on water and wastewater bills, reduce the cost of building new water and wastewater infrastructure and leave more water in rivers and lakes for you to enjoy. Despite the heat of Tex

A wetter summer than normal

A lot of people probably don’t know this, but before the age of local irrigation (early 1900s), the Rio Grande Valley was once called the Wild Horse Desert because of its relative lack of rain compared to, let’s say, Corpus Christi (31.7) and Austin (34.25). In comparison, Hidalgo County, averages 23 inches of the wet stuff per year.

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