Water shortages have almost always been a problem for the arid Texas land, but the continued growth of the population in Texas has exacerbated the problem quite a bit. Fortunately, the government and residents of Texas have multiple steps they can take to mitigate the effect of an ever-increasing population on our limited water supply. At least three things that the Texas government could do would be to fix our current water system infrastructure to prevent useless water loss, build pipelines to water sources not already connected to our current water system, and to make efforts to conserve water even while not in times of drought. The first thing Texas should do is fix its leaking infrastructure. In 2005, Fort Worth alone lost 7.2 billion