“PARCHED”: A DALLAS WAY OF LIFE?

Our September cover story, “Hard Truth, Dry Times,” argued the need for urgent and continuing comprehensive water planning for Dallas and North Texas. The argument just gained more evidence in a new study reported by Randy Lee Loftis today in the DMN. The recent rainfalls and replenishment of some area lakes is probably only a mirage in the long-term vista of water availability, in part the result of global warming. The city and the burbs need to increase water conservation restrictions, not loosen them, and sensible impoundment projects need to start turning earth. The truths are going to just get harder: potentially worse than even in the record drought of the 1950s.