Wichita Falls is suffering a severe drought, and has instituted a water rationing plan. That plan is a hot topic at City Hall because the Dallas Cowboys have won an exemption to the rationing plan so they will have green grass for their training camp in July. Wichita Falls that some ranchers are switching to camels.
Homeowners can water all they want by hand, but they can only use the sprinkler once a week.
Water rationing has been a way of life in Wichita Falls since the temperature hit 110 degrees earlier this spring. Even though they got two inches of rain last weekend, the level of Lake Arrowhead is still dropping. It's less than half of what's considered to be normal. The lake is losing 90 million gallons of water a day through evaporation. Nevertheless, the Wichita Falls City Council voted to give Midwestern University a waiver from the watering ban so the field used by the Dallas Cowboys training camp will be plush when the team arrives in July.