Every new home is another straw sipping from the reservoirs, which, increasingly in the added heat of climate change, have turned into what a Texas drought expert refers to as “giant evaporation ponds.” Evaporation rates of surface water in the Hill Country are approximately 57 inches per year.

Me and friends from Houston have gone skiing out west. We’d unzip jackets and even remove them. It was dry there. We weren’t the wimps we seemed.

“Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.” - W.H. Auden