Currently, our precious water is too cheap! We basically pay for cost of delivery with little or no cost for water. That must change.
People often do not respect or conserve what is too cheap…….
$103M pact region’s largest water transaction Posted: December 29, 2011 By Kevin Welch amarillo.com There was talk of a “momentous occasion” and many thanks for making the largest water transaction in Texas Panhandle history final Thursday. “I don’t think you owe me any thanks,” said wealthy oil and gas man T. Boone Pickens. “You paid for [...]
SNAPSHOTS OF THE DROUGHT Bill Dawson October 23, 2011 A drought for the centuries: It hasn’t been this dry in Texas since 1789 There was only one other year in almost five centuries when Texas’ summer drought was as severe as it was in 2011, federal climate experts have concluded. Instrumental weather records used to [...]
Wanting a little more info on Texas Water? Check out the Texas Parks and Wildlife‘s 10th annual water issue. The issue’s articles deal with a variety of Texas water challenges. Here are some highlights: The issue opens with a look at the last ten years of Texas water. Concern about the state’s water supply unifies [...]
Wildfires soar as La Niña effects keep rain at bay By ERIC BERGER Copyright 2010 Houston Chronicle Dec. 8, 2010 The great drought of 2011 may have started two months ago. Since Tropical Storm Hermine drenched central Texas in September, the state has been very dry, with large swaths receiving less than 10 percent of [...]
Despite plenty of rain and snow coming in from the Pacific this winter, the California Department of Water Resources is reluctant to declare an end to the state’s three-year drouth. Although a lot of wet stuff has fallen, the state’s biggest source of drinking and irrigation water is still only at 40 percent capacity. Lake [...]
According to figures from Texas State Climatologist John Nielsen-Gammon, who also serves as a professor of atmospheric sciences at Texas A&M University. A recently issued U.S. Drought Monitor shows for the first time since the fall of 2007 none of the state in drouth. Only a few small patches of the state, near the Coastal [...]
(Boy, now doesn’t that give you relief – when the NYT [or Wall Street] report our Texas drought is officially over!!! Maybe they think the Wall St. bailout helped Texas ranchers and farmers? Gulp – someone(s) have not seriously studied long-term Southwestern droughts – I remember a decent year or two during the 50′s I believe – [...]
Drought losses top $19 million in Lower Rio Grande Valley Reservoir levels are healthy but wet winter not forecast November 13, 2009 TAMU AG News Writer(s): Rod Santa Ana, 956-878-8317,r-santaana@tamu.edu Contact(s):Dr. Luis Ribera, 956-968-5581, LARibera@ag.tamu.edu WESLACO — For the second year in a row, Mother Nature has dealt a heavy blow to agricultural producers in [...]
(Note: has the extreme two year drought affecting mostly south and central Texas ended? Much of the region has had good rains in September and October – but has that ENDED this drought? We do not know yet, but pray it has………. time will tell. Be careful of your water resources in the meantime – [...]
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