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 LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) - In the five years since billionaire oilman T. Boone Pickens started trying to sell water from beneath the vast empty spaces of West Texas, he hasn't had any customers.
Not one city or agency has signed on, even after years of drought conditions and soaring water use by Texas' booming population, which is expected to more than double by 2060.
However, officials at Pickens' company aren't concerned. And studies indicate they shouldn't be because, quite simply, the second-most populous state in the nation is running low on water.
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