had been pumping water from spicewoods community well to sell to other places. with little rain to restore the water table, the wells ran dry at the end of january and spicewood beach became the first town in texas to run out of water. >> we're still on a limited base 50 gallons a day is we are allowed per household and its kind of hard to know where this is going to go and how long this is going to be. >> sreenivasan: now, the residents get their water this way-- a 7,000 gallon truck delivering water four times a day. this is expected to continue for months as the utility company looks for long term solutions. that's cold comfort for residents who retired here for a life of leisure and are now watching their life savings go down the drain. >> you've lost your property value now because this is a major problem with no water and i feel like now personally myself that nobody is going to want to come in anymore, live here any longer because we have issues with our water system. >> sreenivasan: strains on the system are beginning to pit upstream communities that liv

in spicewood beach, texas, they're the first town that has run out of water so we went to both those and we have that piece online right now so you can see it a day in advance. >> ifilladd >> waer: and that's the newshour tonight, i'm margaret warner. >> brown: and i'm jeffrey brown. we'll see you online and again here tomorrow evening. thank you and good night. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org stocks fell on worries that china might... announcer: the new pbs for ipad app. you'll never know what you'll find. [dog barks] announcer: available now in the app store.