Texas’ Rio Grande Valley is experiencing a population boom. And those additional people are putting a strain on the area’s natural resources – particularly water. Naveena Sadasivam joined Think at the studios of KUT in Austin to talk about how drought and heat waves are threatening the futures of the 6 million people who live in the valley, which she writes about for the Texas Observer.
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