Some want it to stop raining so they can have their holiday plans uninterupted.
I'm of the mindset of continued prayer and never talking badly of our most precious resource.
CONSERVative
Indeed. It can definitely keep raining.
Thanks wolf. Lake Travis is about 1/3 of full capacity now. We try to conserve as much as possible.
Instead of Texas spending $6 billion on wind power that ain’t happening we could have built natural gas power plants with reliable output and spent the other half on desalination plants along the coast.
We need Rain.
We aren’t near close enough.
The Guadalupe ( Canyon Lake) is still not full enough and most of the stock tanks are still very dry.
Slow soaking rain.
and we need to take this seriously.
So many things we depend on are dependant on rain,
Beef, maize (cattle food),cotton,wheat,lumber and I could go on.
There is NO SUCH THING as a shortage of water. There is only water that costs more than the legacy uses can justify.
Since the oceans have not dried up, we have an unlimited amount of sea water that can be desalinated and then piped or hauled to where it is needed. However, people may not be able to afford to buy it and will have to move to where water is less expensive. But please don’t fall for this “shortage” nonsense.
Surely the author is mistaken. "Everyone" knows the current drought is the worst one Texas has ever had, and it's caused by anthropogenic global warming.
I live in Austin and have yet to hear someone complaining of the rain.
Early this week I was with a group of friends cycling on 360 In the pouring rain and 42 degrees and even after 40 miles, not a one of us was complaining of the rain.
Quite a few of our reservoirs didn't exist in the 50's.
The bottom line is that Texas has two of the three things it needs. It has part of the Gulf Coast, so it has unlimited water, though it is salty. And it also has a vast amount of natural gas, so it can both desalinate that water and pump it inland to great reservoirs, year around.
The only other thing that Texas needs is the will to do this.
What sweetens the deal is that once it is built, there will be an explosion of development in currently empty places in Texas. Entirely new cities. Vast amounts of capital and employment. Great prosperity. So it will pay for itself many times over.
And yes, I know that Texas is currently building some desalination plants. They already have over 100 small ones, but with new, scalable nanotechnolgy filters, they can be much larger and process much more water.