Texas Officials Preventing Future Water Droughts

DALLAS (AP) – Texas officials are struggling to ensure that they can sate everyone’s thirst as about 1,000 people arrive each day in a state where prolonged drought is a regular occurrence. Indications that the state’s water infrastructure is more fragile than once thought come as demographers expect the population to double by 2050 to more than 50 million people. Officials are focusing more on long-term planning, but they must contend with aging water lines and other roadblocks.