West Texas rapidly running out of water – less than 90-day supply remaining in dozens of towns
by: Julie Wilson
NaturalNews.com
May 30, 2014
At least 33 communities in Texas could soon be completely out of water, some within three short months. Others say they could go dry in just 45 days.
Pebble Beach, a town northwest of San Antonio, has had their request approved for a $350,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to dig new, deeper wells.
Bandera County, an area located on the Edwards Plateau, said they intend to match $90,000 in order to acquire property so they can build a 30,000-gal. ground storage tank for the community.
Resident Joe Mooneyham told KHOU-TV that he hasn’t been able to water his lawn since last September.
“Everything was just emerald green,” said Mooneyham. He told the local news that he misses the green landscape, deer and the normal water levels that once existed in Lake Medina. The lake behind the Pebble Beach resident’s home has receded more than one and a quarter mile away.
“Every day I go on and check the level,” Mooneyham said.
Pebble Beach is named as such because of a field of small stones covering a nearly dried up lakebed. Neighbors just a few miles down the road are purchasing tens of thousands of dollars worth of water and having it shipped in just to survive. Unfortunately, communities are routinely being developed in areas lacking the water needed to support them. Existing communities nearby then have their water resources dried up attempting to support the new developments.
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