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Drought and record-breaking heat spur a South Texas water crisis

A century of enterprise brought the Rio Grande to its brink. Now authorities are “praying for a hurricane” as reservoirs dwindle and populations boom on both sides of the border.

By Dylan Baddour, Inside Climate News
Lake Falcon, one of the the two bi-national reservoirs of the Rio Grande, is just 9% full.

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