{"id":1892,"date":"2011-11-16T16:09:22","date_gmt":"2011-11-16T22:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/?p=1892"},"modified":"2011-11-16T20:31:38","modified_gmt":"2011-11-17T02:31:38","slug":"texas-towns-taps-still-running","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2011\/11\/16\/texas-towns-taps-still-running\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Town&#8217;s Taps Still Running"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1895\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"A stock pond south of Dallas, TX, dries up due to drought.\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2011\/11\/51636665.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1895\" title=\"A stock pond south of Dallas, TX, dries up due to\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2011\/11\/51636665-300x195.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2011\/11\/51636665-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2011\/11\/51636665-220x143.jpg 220w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2011\/11\/51636665.jpg 594w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Paul Buck\/AFP<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">A stock pond south of Dallas dries up due to drought.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Earlier this week we asked, <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2011\/11\/14\/what-happens-when-water-runs-out\/\">What Happens When Water Runs Out<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>One of the locales on a government list of places expected to run out of water looked poised to go dry any week now. The small town of Groesbeck, with just 4,328 people, gets all of its water from the Navasota river, which is at well below normal levels.<\/p>\n<p>In good news for the town&#8217;s residents, they&#8217;ve<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kcentv.com\/story\/16057491\/short-term-solution-for-water-crisis-in-groesbeck\"> literally bought a few more months of water<\/a>. A three-mile pump is being installed\u00a0further\u00a0up the river to bring in more water. It should be enough to last them four months, while the town looks for long-term groundwater sources.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>StateImpact Texas reported earlier this week on how the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality assists towns in situations like Groesbeck&#8217;s.\u00a0\u201cYou can pipe water in from another system. You can drill wells, you can move pumps. But there\u2019s no\u00a0substitute\u00a0for rain,\u201d the commission&#8217;s spokesperson Andrea Morrow told StateImpact Texas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week we asked, What Happens When Water Runs Out? One of the locales on a government list of places expected to run out of water looked poised to go dry any week now. The small town of Groesbeck, with just 4,328 people, gets all of its water from the Navasota river, which is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":1895,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[58],"tags":[33,85],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892"}],"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=1892"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1898,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892\/revisions\/1898"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}