Texas Water Utility Plans for Drought Worse Than 1950s
Fearing that this drought could reduce lake levels lower than ever before, the board of the Lower Colorado River Authority, the wholesale supplier of water to Austin and other Central Texas cities, plans to meet next week to discuss reducing or ending its water sales to downriver farmers next year.
“These are unprecedented conditions," said the agency's general manager, Becky Motal, in a statement Wednesday. She added, “If the dry weather continues, we will reach levels that we have not reached before in previous droughts."
Lake Travis and Lake Buchanan, the two major reservoirs, are currently 40 percent full ...
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Brenda Navarro via Texas Tribune on Facebook
:(
Jim Wier via Texas Tribune on Facebook
And the NOAA says la Nina is back and will persist until this winter - double :(
Marilyn Green-Glidewell via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Can anyone tell me if those lake where tapped for fracking becouse as I understand it & I may be wrong it takes 900.000gals of water for each well that is tapped? It maybe more sister just said 9 million gallons:( she watched gaslands.
Jason Roper via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Lake LBJ still 90% full or better.
Jason Roper via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Marilyn there is no fracking in Cen texas there are no gas pockets in the Edwards Plataue
Don Wade via Texas Tribune on Facebook
What drought? Here in DFW area I see watering of commercial properties all the time.
John Carhart via Texas Tribune on Facebook
The fact remains that Texas is lacking in any real leadership when it comes to the issue of water resources! That includes you; Rick Perry! (As well as Dewhurst, Straus and the rest of the money-grubbers who promote development that is ultimately unsustainable!)
Sebastian St.Troy
It was only recently that the LCRA was considering a contract with the White Stallion coal plant, and that contract if approved, would require LCRA to provide them water before anyone else. It seems that the Perry appointees running the LCRA should look to the future by learning to conserve, create systems that work, and never considering any contracts that would cause problems for any farmers.
Lloyd Huggins
Golf courses, car washes, and lawns before food production? Hmmmm....