Texas and Mexico Heat And Drought

Inside Climate News
View In: Texas and Mexico Heat And DroughtThis story is a collaboration of The Texas Observer and Inside Climate News. Northern Mexico’s water crisis is spilling into Texas, drying out the two bi-national reservoirs of the Rio Grande, on which millions of people and $1 billion in agriculture rely.  One reservoir, Lake Falcon, is just 9 percen...

Yale E360
View In: Texas and Mexico Heat And DroughtWith a megadrought persisting in the Southwest, El Paso and other cities on the Rio Grande are scrambling to find alternative sources of water and are turning to innovative approaches — desalination, transporting water via pipelines, and “toilet-to-tap” wastewater recycling.Read more on E360 →

Inside Climate News
View In: Texas and Mexico Heat And DroughtThis is Part 1 of Drifting Toward Disaster, a series in partnership with the Texas Observer about life-changing challenges facing Texans and their rivers. This summer, the Rio Grande dried up in places that it never had before. For more than 100 miles through wild and scenic country, its snaking, sand...

Yale Universities Climate Connections
View In: Texas and Mexico Heat And DroughtThe system is expected to move inland south of the Texas/Mexico border by Saturday night. The post Gulf of Mexico disturbance 99L poised to bring Mexico and Texas beneficial rains appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.

Inside Climate News
View In: Texas and Mexico Heat And DroughtLAREDO, Texas—A mounting water supply crisis in scorching far South Texas has left local governments pressed to respond. Two major cities, Brownsville and McAllen, rolled out watering restrictions in recent weeks and their counties made disaster declarations, seeking emergency state funds. The reservoir...

Zero Hedge News
View In: Texas and Mexico Heat And DroughtNorthern Mexico Runs Out Of Water, May Impact Beer Production Extreme drought in northern Mexico has sparked a water crisis. President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador addressed the beer industry in the region to shift production elsewhere because of sustainability factors, reported Bloomberg.  The wate...