A small city in South Texas is trying to find alternative sources of drinking water as heavy drought captures the region And threatens to dry his main offer.
The city of Matis usually pumps its drinking water from the lake of the Corps, but it is expected that the deterioration of the drought conditions immerses the water level too low to safely extract useful water, according to the city town of City City Sedric Davis.
“It's not that we end with water Or we will completely dry, ”said Davis. “It will be difficult to pull out clean water from the lake, because we will pull the dirt with water.”
All this dirt can damage the system of filtering and processing the city, he added. According to the US Bureau, Matis has about 4300 people.
The situation in Texas emphasizes the growing problem in the parts of the country, and the climate, the climate change, changes the models of precipitation, enhances the drought and examines the availability of safe drinking water.
In 2023 the city New Orlean ran into a crisis of drinking water After an abnormally low level in the missiona, which suffered from drought, forced salt water to invade the means in the field of water consumption.
Last year, constant drought and years of low sedimentation pushed the tanks in Mexico City to historically low levelsIt causes a serious lack of water in the most densely populated city in North America.
South Texas was in the adhesion of a long -term dry spell, and most of the region in the “moderate” or “harsh” drought, as classified according to USA Dry Monitorwhich issues weekly color coding codes to show the degree and intensity of drought throughout the country.
Unusually dry conditions led to a drop in water levels into the lake of Christie Corps.
“We had no rain to replenish the lakes and reservoirs of South Texas,” Davis said, adding that several cities and small communities in this area should now look for emergency solutions.
Davis said that current forecasts suggest that lake levels can be too low by the end of December. Thus, the city is trying to dig two emergency wells to preserve drinking water flowing into Matis.
The project has not yet broken down, but Davis said that he hopes to quickly retreat the process of resolution and leasing agreement with the Texas Department of Parks and Wildlife. If everything goes according to plan, digging can begin by the end of October, he said.
“If everything is consistent, and we will be able to get the wells by the end of December, everything will be in order with us,” Davis said.
Nevertheless, the city authorities are considering other backup measures just in case, including expensive depressive plants and the possibility of processing and re -use of wastewater.
“We do not leave stone on stone,” Davis said.
