How Texas could buy Louisiana water [aquaduct(s)]

July 15, 2014 | Vanity

[deport]

Unemployment rate by state/DC.

[Reeses]

A false premise.

The problem is high density city growth vs. low density rural growth. If unbalanced, Texas will go Democrat, and with it the whole country. You can look at any population density map and match it pretty closely to who voted Democrat: all the areas with a population density greater than 1,000 people per square mile.

Water transportation is a key technology required for high density cities to exist. If Texas limits an area to just the water God provides naturally, it will stay God's country.

[morphing libertarian]

Texas not bad. North Dakota, the boom continues.

[Ben Ficklin]

The book Cadillac Desert was published in 1986 and this book pointed out the coming problems with water supply in the western US. The book also covered the draw down of the Ogallala aquifer of the western plains.

The Ogallala provides a lot of water for irrigation in the Texas panhandle as far south as Midland. Texas considered the problems with the falling level and how that would affect the Texas ag economy.

In 1988 Texas did a feasibility on pumping water from the mouth of the Miss river via pipeline up to Possum Kingdom lake. From there, the Brazos river channel would be re-engineered so that the water would reach Lubbock, and then be distributed thru out the panhandle for irrigation.

Needless to say, it was not feasible, but the problem of the falling level of the Ogallala aquifer has not gone away.

You may recall a few years ago Boone Pickens and Mesa Water were given water rights from the Ogallala and were trying to sell that water to San Antonio or DFW. They eventually sold those water rights to 6-7 municipalities in the panhandle who needed it because Lake Meredith was going dry.