We the People: Running on Empty

Much of the world already knows that it is possible to live without oil, but that it is impossible to live without water.

That reality is dawning upon people across the US as the country faces unprecedented water shortages.

On the Texas side of the Rio Grande Basin there are Americans forced to live without running water just like their Mexican counterparts across the border.

Many economists and climatologists believe profligate lifestyles and denial of the real value of water as a precious and diminishing resource are leading the US into a crisis far greater than its dependency on foreign oil.

Al-Jazeera