Droughts, and their Unmentionable Cause, are Targets of Texas Water Fund
"Whether Texas lawmakers want to admit it or not, they are already planning for the effects of climate change.
Much of Texas has suffered a prolonged drought that has drained reservoirs to some of their lowest levels this year could be even worst. The situation is so dire that the GOP-led Texas House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a long-term rainy day fund that invests in water infrastructure to prepare for the more frequent droughts in coming decades, although they did not acknowledge the connection to climate change.
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Texas is one of many states to face the brunt of hotter, drier weather. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) says Texas droughts are now 20 times more likely than they were in the 1960s. In 2011, a Texas climatologist described the drought as once in maybe 500 or 1,000 years. But one more year and were already talking about a drought more severe than anything weve ever had."
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/04/02/1806511/texas-drought-fund/
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