All of these events combined could deplete Texas' water supply, leading experts to call on officials to prepare a 100-year water source plan. All of these events combined could deplete Texas' water supply, leading experts to call on officials to prepare a 100-year water source plan. 'The state water plan doesn't explicitly consider climate change in figuring out how water supply and water demand will both change,' Nielsen-Gammon said. 'Climate change is going to make that depletion happen a little bit faster, but the decline of the Ogallala Aquifer is primarily caused by water extraction for irrigation rather than by climate change.' 'It's really a change in the climate, with the normally dry conditions in West Texas slowly migrating toward East Texas,' he said.

Source: Daily Mail July 08, 2020 18:58 UTC