Finally Someone Said No More Development

[Capt.Brown]

Need to run a canal from the Great Lakes to the west. Shovel ready jobs!

[Txhunter3000]

More people fed up.

https://www.texastribune.org/2025/04/17/east-texas-defends-water-lake-the-pines/

[Etxbuckman]

Well what’dya know. Droughts are good for something after all.

[friscopaint]

More people fed up.
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/04...ake-the-pines/

North Texas municipal water district manages the lake in article, they won't stop them same as they haven't and won't stop the new reservoirs being built. Somehow they "own" all those watersheds.......the number one thing they need to do is ban automatic lawn waterers it's the number one water waster, some will say well it just evaporates and comes back as rain but the earth is 71% water of which 97% is salt water or the lawn sprinkler ending up in a rain forest doesn't help either....I live rural and none of us have lawn sprinklers systems other than the stupid aerobic septic looks like I'm going to have to get, conventional worked for 40 yrs but wall collapsed and no longer allowed.......that's a whole different story though.

I don't blame the developers either, they are for profit companies and I will say I am shocked at what people will buy with literally houses stacked almost on top of each other by the thousands.....these yards can be mowed with a weedeater and still have an automatic sprinkler system......

[friscopaint]

People run out of water all the time. In some communities, trucking it in or resorting to rainwater storage is just part of life. We’ve run out of water twice at the ranch in the last two years due to drought. Thankfully, we were able to lower the well, but it’s maxed out and we can’t go any lower. Being able to turn a faucet and get unlimited clean water is luxury often taken for granted.
what really sucks is being accustomed to having it whenever you need it and suddenly your well is dry because a bunch of new neighbors moved in and put all their straws in the same aquifer.

Happening in NW Oklahoma with long droughts and irrigation pivots. When I was a kid there wasn't such a thing there as a pivot and everywhere now, water isn't deep and was plentiful, sand country so recharge when it rains is good, some shallower wells in town have gone dry. Where I'm at the irrigation pivots are 350 water wells are 1200 due to iron we are on coop water.

[Txhunter3000]

Update: The conservation district came out to do their 6 month well monitoring on my neighbors well and found that it had dropped 6' since November. She's not even in the heavy drawdown area for the wells supplying the Vista Ridge pipeline to San Antonio.