Drought Crushes Texas Water Pipes With Massive Funding Need (1)

Water leaking from the front yard of a 1970s ranch house in northeast San Antonio in early October gurgled down the street and into a ditch. A water main had broken, one of more than 6,000 that San Antonio Water System officials expect to repair this year.

Many of the pipes bringing drinking water to houses in half-century-old neighborhoods such as this one can’t handle the changing climate in San Antonio, which has been hit hard by a nearly two-year extreme drought — the latest of a series of droughts that have beset the city in the past 20 years. ...