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To: Sea Otter who wrote (10017)2/22/2012 11:14:28 AM
From: Wharf Rat  Read Replies (2) of 85487
 
Texas agency likely to cut water to rice farms
LISSIE, Texas (AP) — Five generations of Ronald Gertson's family have tilled the claylike soil of southeast Texas to grow rice, confident that no matter how fickle Mother Nature was, there would be one constant: water to irrigate their crop. Until now. For the first time since Gertson's great-grandfather made his way from Denmark through Kansas to the flat, coastal area south of Houston, his family faces the likelihood officials won't release water from two Austin-area lakes into the rivers and canals they use for irrigation.
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