News Briefs: Austin Water Loses Hundreds of Millions of Gallons of Water After Storm

Austin (Texas) Water is reporting that tens of thousands of leaks in its water system caused by recent winter storms have led to hundreds of millions of gallons of lost water.Utility Director Greg Meszaros told KXAN News many leaks may not have even been detected yet.“Tuesday night and Wednesday morning when this peaked out, we were losing 325 million gallons of water at our peak,” he said. “That is an incredible amount of water — nothing I’ve ever seen before.” Report Makes Case for Funding Longer-Range Weather Forecasting A National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration report could spur Congress to approve the $15 million annual