{"id":1736,"date":"2011-11-14T14:01:21","date_gmt":"2011-11-14T20:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/?p=1736"},"modified":"2011-11-14T14:39:52","modified_gmt":"2011-11-14T20:39:52","slug":"ask-a-climatologist-will-we-run-out-of-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2011\/11\/14\/ask-a-climatologist-will-we-run-out-of-water\/","title":{"rendered":"Ask a Climatologist: Is Texas Running Dry?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1740\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 210px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1740\" title=\"gammon\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2011\/11\/gammon1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"260\" \/><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Texas A&amp;M University<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. John Nielsen-Gammon, Texas State Climatologist<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Curious about what state climatologist John Nielsen-Gammon has to say about some towns in Texas running out of water? StateImpact Texas put in a call:<\/p>\n<p class=\"question\"><span class=\"abbr\" title=\"question\">Q: <\/span>StateImpact Texas: There&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tceq.texas.gov\/drinkingwater\/trot\/droughtw.html\">this list <\/a>by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) of towns that are running out of water. Some of them even have a date of a few weeks from now when they&#8217;ll run out. Is that possible?<\/p>\n<p class=\"answer\"><span class=\"abbr\" title=\"answer\">A: <\/span>John Nielsen-Gammon, State Climatologist:\u00a0The deadline is a worst case scenario, because the odds of zero rainfall are near zero. The specific dates are pretty good for attention-grabbing, but they\u2019re not realistic projections of when they\u2019ll actually run out of water.<\/p>\n<p class=\"question\"><span class=\"abbr\" title=\"question\">Q: <\/span>What about a few months from now?<!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"answer\"><span class=\"abbr\" title=\"answer\">A: <\/span>If you\u2019re talking three or four months down the road, we\u2019ll get more rain, and each rain event will push the run-out-of-water date further down the road. In individual cases, it really depends on what they\u2019re doing to put in place a fallback measure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"question\"><span class=\"abbr\" title=\"question\">Q: <\/span>So is there ever a danger of people completely running out?<\/p>\n<p class=\"answer\"><span class=\"abbr\" title=\"answer\">A: <\/span>As the drought goes on, I imagine there\u2019ll be emergencies that pop up. The problem will be one of redundancy, where cities will be relying more and more on individual sources and lose their alternatives. Mechanical sources can break, and you can effectively run out of water.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Curious about what state climatologist John Nielsen-Gammon has to say about some towns in Texas running out of water? StateImpact Texas put in a call: Q: StateImpact Texas: There&#8217;s this list by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) of towns that are running out of water. Some of them even have a date of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":1740,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[58],"tags":[31,33,85],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1736"}],"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=1736"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1749,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1736\/revisions\/1749"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}