Waco is starting 2024 with flowing streams, green winter grass and Lake Waco full for the first January in three years. But drought is lingering elsewhere in the region.
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Waco and other cities have lifted water use restrictions after heavy flooding filled up Lake Waco in the past week, but that doesn’t mean the drought is over.