Futurism: Climate Scientists Shake Their Heads as First US City Running Completely Out of Water

https://futurism.com/science-energy/texas-water-crisis-climate

Science fiction becomes fact.

«…extremely dry conditions follow decades of warnings that South Texas is posed for a water crisis.

Earlier this week, city manager Peter Zanoni announced Corpus Christi will be forced to cut overall water consumption by 25 percent — nearly 16 million gallons a day — as soon as September. “We have no precedent to follow. There’s no manual, there’s no video,” Zanoni told the city council.

Details are hazy on how the city plans to make those cuts, but the impacts could be massive, as schools, hospitals, and homeowners are forced to do without — to say nothing of commercial and industrial business.»

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