It's been about a month since our area has had any significant rain. Water wells levels are low and officials are just hoping some rain can soon replenish the aquifers before we have a repeat of last's years drought.
              Brenda Traylor tries to save the trees in her yard by raking brush onto the base of them. She says this is a way to help save them from the drought the area has been in. The South Shreveport resident lives off of well water and says she doesn't use it to water her grass because she knows how precious water is to her community.
             "I still don't let water run out in the yard, I only water my flower beds around the house and that's also for the foundation," says Traylor.
Monthly well testing is done by students from LSU-Shreveport. Director of the Red River Watershed Institute Gary Hanson says the level of the aquifers change with the seasons. "People are pulling on the water real heavy in the summer and then their not pulling so hard on it in the winter months so it pops back up," says Hanson.
               He says the water emergency usage plan from last year is still in place. But that doesn't stop Brenda from praying for more rain.
"If we can make it through the summer, then we can hope for another wet winter and hope that the wet winters are enough to replenish what we take during the summer," says Traylor.
               And Hanson says you can't count on that and that's why we really need people to conserve inside the areas we've designated critical.
Hanson says the long term forecast looks like another drought, so he urges everyone to start conserving.