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In the Rio Grande Valley, a canal system designed more than a century ago for agriculture still delivers water to the region's lush farmland and fast-growing towns and cities. Today, the canals lose as much as 40 percent of the water they carry, waste that experts say could contribute to steep water shortages in coming decades as the population grows and climate change intensifies droughts.
The canals lose as much as 40% of the water they carry as they snake through farmland and fast-growing cities and towns.
The Texas Water Development Board predicts that by 2070, water used to irrigate farms in the Rio Grande Valley will fall by 36%, in large part because more farmland will be replaced by urban development.
McALLEN, Texas (Associated Press) -- On a scorching afternoon in South Texas, Sonia Lambert looked out at an open-air canal that carries mud-green water from...