Saturday, May 5, 2007

Texas Water Wars

The editorializers in today's Dallas Morning News are appalled because those unreasonable rural people up in Northeast Texas, abetted by environmentalists, don't want to lose their land and livelihoods so that the state's most profligate water users can build a bunch of reservoirs.

Imagine that.

But Dallas needs this additional water to ensure its future!

Oh, the country folks? I guess they can just move to Dallas and contribute to its economic growth.

I'll stop there for now. My article on Marvin Nichols Reservoir, currently the most contentious of the proposed water projects, is scheduled for the July 2007 issue of Texas Parks & Wildlife.

Much more soon.

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