[bgill]

Thankfully, the LCRA finally stopped giving the rice farmers in South Texas the lakes' precious water. Those leeches have been a severe drain on communities and towns in Central Texas forever. The LCRA is now making mandantory registration and fees on private water wells and usage due to the drought (and the $$$$ it generates). There are other crops they can grow which don't require so much irrigation. Here's thinking outside the box - grow a crop for your climate.

[babble-on]

You are so right. And California could profit from the same lesson, too.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

I’m sure some people would be willing to sell Texas water in exchange for cheap oil. Just the cost of doing business don’t you know.

[Responsibility2nd]

I wish my lake had as much water as Travis and Buchanan.

I have property on Lake Medina. Which is only 3 percent full.

[DonaldC]

Too bad we don’t have pipelines to move water from flooded areas, which happen nearly yearly, to these reservoirs.

[Nervous Tick]

>> The LCRA is now making mandantory registration and fees on private water wells and usage due to the drought

Not true.

The LCRA (Lower Colorado RIVER Authority) has no authority to regulate groundwater. In the state of Texas, groundwater regulation is the domain of county groundwater conservation districts.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

The biggest cost to desalination is energy. I’ve long thought that Texas could build a gigantic desalination plant and pumping operation that could run entirely on natural gas, of which the Gulf has an overabundance.

After desalinizing the water, pump it inland into man made aquifers