Why are some rivers in texas called wrong way rivers

The rivers flow from dry land to wet

Explanation:

Some Texas's rivers flow away from the dry northwestern region, where there is a bigger need of water, to the humid and damp southeast of texas, thus being called "wrong-way" rivers. Most rivers in Texas flow from northwest to southeast, due to the Continental Divide in North America, which is used to define the direction of a river´s flow and drainage into the seas and oceans. The Continental Divide in the Americas is the line that divides the flow of water between the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean. Water that drains on the east side of the Continental Divide flows toward the Atlantic Ocean. Therefore, most rivers on central U.S.A flow into the Gulf of Mexico via the Mississippi river. The term "wrong-way" rivers was coined because the natural flow of the river contrasts with the areas in need of water, where the flow benefits the already humid and damp areas in the southeast regions, and disadvantages the dry regions in the northwest.

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