{"id":888278,"date":"2026-10-20T00:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T00:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/888278\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T00:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T00:42:09","slug":"new-plan-aims-to-save-medina-lake-after-years-of-drought-and-falling-water-levels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/888278\/","title":{"rendered":"New plan aims to save Medina Lake after years of drought and falling water levels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MICO, Texas &#8211; A new push to save Medina Lake after years of drought and dropping water levels.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Now, there&#8217;s a group working on a proposal that could change how farmers get their water, with the hopes of keeping more water in the lake.<\/p>\n<p>The proposal would shift farmers away from using Medina Lake water for irrigation and instead provide water through newly drilled groundwater wells.<\/p>\n<p>Mike Sarosdy, who has owned a home near the lake for 20 years, says he&#8217;s watched it dry up twice.<\/p>\n<p>He says the lake&#8217;s small watershed makes it difficult to refill, while the more than century-old irrigation system adds to the challenge.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re hoping to bring the plan before Texas lawmakers during the next legislative session, with Sarosdy saying he&#8217;s cautiously optimistic about its chances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MICO, Texas &#8211; A new push to save Medina Lake after years of drought and dropping water levels.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":888279,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[192,79],"class_list":["post-888278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=888278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/888279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=888278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=888278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=888278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}