Texas suffers the most severe drought in 100 years

[gslack]

Now dummy, it is not there when I just link to it, and why would I want to send the link, it is already on the board.

Come now socks lets not be dishonest ...
You posted a link to his post not the link from his article in that post. You named the link after the article though..Why is that? Its called being a weasel and its pathetic... Now post the link he now admits has the code...

 

[waltky]

Texas runnin' outta water...

Texas water supply for the future is uncertain
Sunday, November 13, 2011 - Texas has a powerful thirst, one that won't be quenched any time soon given projections that the state's population will double to 46 million over the next half-century.

In the past, Texans - particularly those in the most populated areas - found water for all those extra showers, sprinklers and toilets by heading to where the water was and grabbing it. They did this with big reservoirs, deep wells and long pipelines. Whatever it took. But the days of cheap and abundant water are coming to an end, and where the additional supply will come from is not clear. The devastating drought of the 1950s, the marker for the worst-case dry spell in Texas history, prompted a massive investment in the state's water infrastructure designed to ensure there would be enough water to meet the demand in decades to come.

Sixty years later, with the state gripped once again by a record-setting drought, lawmakers are balking at the price tag of a plan designed to meet demand for the next 50 years - a staggering $53 billion for more reservoirs, desalination plants and pipelines, among other projects. The Texas House failed to take action during its last session on two bills intended to create the first permanent funding source for the state's water plan. Instead, lawmakers placed two propositions on last week's ballot, with mixed results. Voters authorized a revolving $6 billion bond program to pay for water supply projects, but rejected another that would provide tax breaks for conservation on ranch lands.

The central dilemma - not enough water to meet competing demands - can be seen along the Trinity River, which runs for 715 miles from the Oklahoma line to Galveston Bay. The rain-fed stream carries the heavy burden of supplying water for Texas' two largest metropolitan areas, Dallas-Fort Worth and Houston, and the demands will only grow with an ever booming, increasingly urban population. But the Trinity, like many other Texas rivers, is tapped, with virtually every drop appropriated by farmers, industries and boundless cities.

Without room for new reservoirs in the Trinity basin, water managers will rely more on conservation and recycled water to close the gap between supply and demand, according to the state plan. They also will protect more aquatic ecosystems that hold storm waters and act as filters. And they will charge those who waste water even more. All the while, they must leave some water in the river for the benefit of fish and wildlife. "We're lucky to be on the water-rich side of the state," said Jim Lester, an ecology expert and vice president at the Houston Advanced Research Center in The Woodlands. "We're just not rich enough."

Texas' hydraulic heart

 

[rdean]

Can't they pray or something?

 

[Chris]

(CNN) -- The Texas town of Groesbeck is on the verge of running dry.

"We have about two weeks of water left," Groesbeck Mayor Jackie Levingston said. Her central Texas town, population 4,300, is one of the latest victim's of the state's ongoing drought.

A lack of rain and the summer's intense heat -- more than 90 days of triple-digit temperatures -- combined to dry out the Groesbeck water supply.

"We lost more water to evaporation than we were using this summer," Levingston said in a telephone interview.

Fort Parker Lake is the city's primary source of water. Heat evaporation took roughly 731 million gallons of water from the lake. The city used only 54 million.

Texas town still suffers effects of heat, drought; water supply down to two weeks - CNN.com

 

[dilloduck]

That 731 million gallons of water fell as rain someplace else in the world. It's sorta like ecological socialism. Gotta spread the resources ya know.

 

[Old Rocks]

Interesting point here. Almost every time that Texas has a drought, the Missouri is in flood. A very large canal from the northern tier to the Southern states? Of course, that would be doing something for the people in this nation. Not 'Conservative', let's bomb Iran instead.

 

[dilloduck]

Interesting point here. Almost every time that Texas has a drought, the Missouri is in flood. A very large canal from the northern tier to the Southern states? Of course, that would be doing something for the people in this nation. Not 'Conservative', let's bomb Iran instead.

must be them 'shovel ready' jobs.
Always wondered how many people we got out there who are any good with a shovel. Sounds fun and fulfilling.