The Lower Colorado River Authority earlier this year approved a far-reaching water plan that determined, in part, how much rice farmers could draw from the Colorado River. But as Mose Buchele of KUT News reports for StateImpact Texas, aggrieved rice farmers aren't done making their case. Read the full story at StateImpact Texas.
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Comments (2)
Meme Me
Here is the reality...Do you want your rice produced here in Texas or in China? I am not a rice farmer and I am thankful for our good Texas Rice! Give them the water they need!!
joe keneson
I guess some guy washing his bmw in austin is more important than rice farming. Lake travis will never fill up again unless a million or so people leave the i-35 corridor and go back to where ever they came from.