The state's recent drought has permanently changed life for some Texans, but in many ways, the scarcity just underlined a crisis already looming in the state. For the latest installment in KUT News, StateImpact Texas and Texas Monthly's series on water issues, Mose Buchele looks at Wharton County, where water concerns have imperiled a generation of rice farmers.
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Luisa Inez Newton via Texas Tribune on Facebook
I think texas farmers are an endangered species and the Lege ought to do more to help, environmentally and for whatever crops grow best in climate change!