Texas water regulation reform could be next step to quenching state’s thirst

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The lake was 41 percent full at the time. Texas continues to grind its way out of drought, helped by recent steady rains statewide and in the next few months by an El Niño weather pattern that promises to bring plentiful rain through winter, a National Weather Service forecaster says. (AP Photo/Lower Colorado River Authority, Stephen Stephanian) </p> <div class="author">Stephen Stephanian</div> <div class="copyright">Copyright 2014 Scripps Media, Inc. All rights reserved. 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Now that the lawmakers have made way to finance water, they may look at new ways to regulate it.</p><p>At a policy primer from the conservative Texas Public Policy Foundation think tank last week, a few speakers talked about how regulating groundwater and water projects may become a new front in efforts to hydrate Texas.</p><p>“I think the time is really ripe (for legislation) to facilitate wisely, not haphazardly, but to facilitate development of water projects so needed in this state,” Kathleen Hartnett White, the director of the TPPF’s Armstrong Center for Energy and Environment, told a crowd gathered in an Austin Capitol room this month.</p><p>Projects could try to capture unused water, White said, but those projects would face complex permitting.</p><p>Russell Johnson, a water rights attorney, talked about the problems of the way Texas manages its groundwater.</p><p>The Texas Constitution says the groundwater belongs to the landowner according to the law of capture. Surface water, meanwhile, belongs to the state and can only be used with state permission.</p><p>To ensure that there isn’t reckless groundwater capture, the state allowed the creation of groundwater conservation districts that can regulate how much water a property owner takes based on the desired future conditions of an aquifer.</p><p>Johnson said some groundwater conservation districts can set desired future conditions that restrictively limit the water a landowner can draw.</p><p>While the Ogallala Aquifer in North Texas, for instance, has a desired future conditions of keeping 50 percent of total storage after 50 years. With about 400 million acre-feet, that would mean people can produce 200 million acre-feet, Johnson said.</p><p>However the Carrizo-Wilcox aquifer northeast of Austin is estimated to have 6 billion acre-feet of water, and at the current production rate, the water conservation districts put 99.8 percent of the water off limits over the next 50 years, Johnson said.</p><p>Johnson also described the lengthy and ongoing legal process of a client of his who paid millions to get a water project off the ground. The loser in a legal complaint also automatically pays attorneys fees, a rarity for it to happen automatically, he noted along the way.</p><p>“What we have here are regulatory authorities that have very little guidance, very little framework within which to operate and immense power to prevent the development of groundwater resources that we so urgently need,” Johnson said. “You hear a lot about brackish groundwater development, you hear a lot about desal. You hear a lot about off channel reservoirs and so on and so forth. We have more fresh groundwater in storage than any other state in the nation other than Alaska. And it’s available for use. Certainly we need to be careful, we need to monitor that use, we need to address the adverse impacts, but we need legislation changes that provide for some kind of certainty.”</p><p>He presented Oklahoma as a model that sets the amount of water allowed for production on a statewide basis.</p><p>Environment Texas Director Luke Metzger said that groundwater conservation districts provide a safeguard, otherwise water withdrawal is “a race to the bottom. ... There is nothing to prevent someone who is a water waster to go in and start sucking it dry. We’re drawing from one pool of water. It’s just irresponsible not to have some system in place to make sure we have water that is shared appropriately and is managed so that it’s not completely dry.”</p><p>He referred to the Ogallala Aquifer, which covers parts of eight states and in 2000 accounted for 20 percent of all groundwater withdrawn in the country, the most intensively pumped aquifer in the nation, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Heavy use has resulted in substantial water level declines, according to the USGS.</p><p>A 2013 Texas Supreme Court ruling in Edwards Aquifer Authority vs. Bragg Pecan Farm added further danger of lawsuits to the mix for groundwater conservation districts trying to limit pumping. The court said the organization needed to pay landowners for taking their water because the Edwards Aquifer Authority inappropriately limited how much water the farm could take.</p><p>The situation opens up groundwater conservation districts to more lawsuits from people taking water but also on the federal level for allowing too much water to be taken, Metzger said.</p><p>He hoped lawmakers, on the federal level as well, could come up with “a rational system.”</p><p>Matthew Waller covers state news as the Scripps Austin Bureau chief. Contact him at matthew.waller@scripps.com or follow him on Twitter @waller_matthew.</p> </div> </div> <footer class="module__footer"> <p class="copyright">Copyright 2014 Scripps Media, Inc. All rights reserved. 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