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Water, or the lack of it, attracted coverage on both ABC and NBC. Houston-based Janet Shamlian on NBC showed us images of Texas' drought: a low lake in Austin, shriveled cornhusks down on the farm, dead trees in Houston. Steve Osunsami was in Sunflower County in the Mississippi Delta where a village of 40 residents has had no drinking water ever since their well dried up six years ago. The federal government has told them that they need to find "an existing water association that will agree to expand," Osunsami explained, but that will cost $1m and the county cannot find the funds. He showed us a shocking map of the state showing all the areas unserved by running water: "Across Mississippi residents get their water from water authorities that provide service to whom and where they please."
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