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Texas Drought Requires Trucks to Bring Water from Over 10 Miles Away

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Spicewood Beach, Texas is now dealing with having to go the extra miles in order to access water to their community. Over one-thousand residents of the community have had to rely on water being trucked in from more than ten miles away.

The trucked-in water is being replenished several times a day, and residents now seem to have adapted. From having received their initial deliveries of water on Monday, the event now appears part of everyday life for the community.

This drought-which is the worst since Texas’ 1917 drought-has adversely cost farmers and ranchers billions of dollars and caused water-use restrictions throughout the state.

Over one-dozen public water systems in Texas are anticipated to run dry in less than 6 months, according to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. The Dallas-Fort Worth area is apparently not being affected by the drought, unlike much of the rest of the state. The state’s aquifers have been affected because of lakes drying up.

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One Response to Texas Drought Requires Trucks to Bring Water from Over 10 Miles Away

  1. Cathy February 4, 2012 at 10:18 am #

    Where I live in North Texas, the drought is officially over now. I’m not so sure about the rest of the state, but I hope that everyone in this great state is/will be receiving ample rains.
    Cathy

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