Well well it warms again. Screw winter. Tired of it. No rain, and the drought rolls on. If these dry conditions prove to be a new normal, it is hard to see how Lubbock and the small towns around Lubbock survive. Can the well fields support a city like Lubbock, with no surface water reservoirs? Everything seems to be predicated on enough annual rainfall to sustain those reservoirs. How about a declining water table for the near surface wells used by most of the small towns around here? How much more water can be pulled from an aquifer that, for all practical purposes, in terms of a human life span, does not recharge?? It's a finite resource. Nobody wants to think about such things. Onward and upward bigger and better boosterism will smash into a wall at some point. It won't be pretty.
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