Texas does not have enough water. Texas also cannot get rid of the water it has. Both of those things are true right now, and in the dry stretch of West Texas where the two collide, they are turning into the same problem.
On one West Texas cattle ranch, the problem looks concrete. Old and abandoned wells have started spewing wastewater back to the surface on their own, pushed up by pressure building underground. A water well on the property tested positive for benzene and other contaminants, and the owners moved their herd and eventually sold it off. That is one version of what happens when a place runs out of room for the water its oilfields bring up.
