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...Toowoomba's residents are slowly running out of water, and have been for the last 15 years, along with nearly everyone else in this corner of eastern Australia. It's the region's worst and longest-lasting drought in over a century, and dead flower beds and brown football fields are the least of their worries. Toowoomba was the go-to city for a large rural area, including nearby Darling Downs, a fertile farmland, until the rain went away and never came back. "We've been in water restriction in Toowoomba since 1992," says Dianne Thorley, the city's mayor...
Number of U.S. states facing a drought as of July...
...Representative Jack Kemp failed to win their parties' nominations; Governor Mario Cuomo never declared his candidacy. Colin Powell was a flash in the pan; Donald Trump was a flash in his own brainpan. No New Yorker has headed a presidential ticket in almost 60 years --the longest New York drought in American history...
Texas is now a state of urban dwellers and many are newcomers who have no cultural memory of the cycle of drought and abundance that rules here. In fact, last year, a survey of Central Texans found most didn't know where their water came from. Most of us simply think of the Highland Lakes as a recreational resource. But the necklace of man-made lakes that control the Colorado River were built in the 1930s to harness deadly floodwaters and provide water and electricity to the region...
There was much grumbling last summer amid what turned out to be a two year drought as water levels fell and boats were high and dry dockside. Now boats torn from their moorings are tumbling through dam spillways and local television reporters are standing in lakeside parks knee deep in water pointing out the picnic tables floating by. The 20 inch rain deficit in the hills to the west of Austin was wiped out in one night as weather radar showed a large purple blob stuck over Marble Falls, Texas...