{"id":13327,"date":"2012-06-22T15:00:59","date_gmt":"2012-06-22T20:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/?p=13327"},"modified":"2012-06-26T11:01:45","modified_gmt":"2012-06-26T16:01:45","slug":"life-by-the-drop-drought-water-and-the-future-of-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2012\/06\/22\/life-by-the-drop-drought-water-and-the-future-of-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"Life By the Drop: Drought, Water and the Future of Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photo by Wyman Meinzer\/Courtesy of Texas Monthly<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\"\"<\/a>They creep in slowly. Reveal themselves so gradually, that it\u2019s easy\u00a0not to notice. Until you do.<\/p>\n

\u201cA drought is kinda like a cancer, it just slowly eats and eats and eats,” says John Jacobs, the mayor of Robert Lee. That town nearly went dry last year. “Your water sources dry up. Your businesses start drying up,” he says. “Without water people aren’t gonna stay there.\u201d<\/p>\n

Last year Texas suffered through the worst single-year drought in its history<\/a>. But drought\u2019s nothing new here<\/a>. It\u2019s as much a part of our heritage as cowboy boots and Tex-Mex.<\/p>\n\n

Click above to listen to “Life by the Drop: Drought, Water, and the Future of Texas<\/a>,\u201d a special report from KUT News<\/a>, StateImpact Texas and Texas Monthly<\/a>, <\/em>hosted by\u00a0Jake Silverstein, editor of the magazine.<\/em><\/p>\n

You can listen to\u00a0Life By the Drop: Drought, Water and the Future of Texas<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>Friday, June 22 at 3 p.m. on\u00a0KUT 90.5 FM<\/a>. The program will air again at 7 p.m. on Monday, and you\u2019ll also be able to hear the entire documentary here and on other public radio stations throughout the\u00a0state. And you can learn more about the history of the drought at our interactive web page,\u00a0Dried Out: Confronting the Texas Drought<\/a>, and share your thoughts on Twitter with the hashtag #txwater.<\/strong><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Listen to our special hour-long report on the drought, a collaboration with KUT News and Texas Monthly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":12938,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[58],"tags":[61,140,179],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13327"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13327"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13535,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13327\/revisions\/13535"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}