WATER IN OUR PAST

1
WATER IN OUR PAST

• BYSUSAN SCHULTZ
• TORRI MILTON
• JOSH MOLSBEE
• LEAH FAULKS
• KARLA HUGHES

2
EFFECTS OF DROUGHTS

• Droughts have devastated crops since the
  fifteenth century.
• The drought of the 1950s became so bad that many
  West Texas ranchers ran out of grassland to graze
  their cattle on, and hay prices soared.
• Throughout much of Texas, drought conditions are
  cracking soils and ruining crops.

3
SUMMARY

• In the introduction to The Time It Never Rained,
  Elmer Kelton writes, "Each new generation tends
  to forget -- until it confronts the sobering
  reality -- that dryness has always been the
  normal condition in the western half of the
  state. Wet years have been the exceptions."