Rain Tomorrow

The sea level has risen 200 feet as the ice melted, just like the scientists promised. All over the world, most of the seacoast has gone under. The resulting displacement of population caused riots and diseases. But the worst was yet to come. Climate change has made rain a thing of the past. As fresh water becomes the most precious commodity and people are willing to die for it, the arable land area shrunk. Now just growing enough crops in the few fertile areas is a full time job. Then a huge underground aquifer is found under old New Mexico, now in the Deadlands, abandoned by the new USC. Getting the superheated, highly pressurized water out and to a place where civilization still exists will be a fight against the outliers, the bad guys that populate the Deadlands.