Wastewater reclamation and reuse is a complex issue, so before the city of San Angelo settled on a path forward, it brought in experts to explore its options.
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Leaders eye countywide water system to slow groundwater depletion (Waco Trib 4-10-16)
Waco Tribune-Herald
Momentum is building to create a countywide water grid that would allow dozens of water suppliers to cooperate to weather droughts, slow the depletion of groundwater and solve arsenic contamination issues.
The Q&A: Steve Young (Trib + Water 4-5-16)
Vista Ridge Pipeline Opponents Win Small Victory (Texas Tribune April 7, 2016)
Opponents of the city of San Antonio?s Vista Ridge water supply project scored a minor win this week when Texas Water Development Board staff announced the 142-mile pipeline was ineligible to seek an $885 million low-interest construction loan.
Environmental Groups Fight Proposed Texas Water Pipeline / Public News Service
SAWS underground water bank more full than ever – San Antonio Express-News
In 2004, SAWS began injecting water into its aquifer storage and recovery system, a water bank that allows the agency to take water from the Edwards Aquifer, its main source, and store it for future use. The utility, which serves more than 1.6 million people in the San Antonio area, credits the aquifer storage system with its ability to avoid every-other-week-watering restrictions throughout one of the most severe droughts in Texas history. The Edwards Aquifer Authority ordered cuts in pumping, as much as 40 percent in August 2014, for all permit holders during the drought to protect endangered species. […] the day will come when drought returns again, and the aquifer storage system is a more effective way to bank water than a surface reservoir because none is lost to evaporation, Labatt said.
Source: SAWS underground water bank more full than ever – San Antonio Express-News
Deal Struck to Move Forward With Vista Ridge Pipeline (Texas Tribune 3-26-16)
Texas A&M water sustainability > KAGS TV – College Station, Texas
Water War: Georgetown rules Chisholm Trail – The Killeen Daily Herald: Local News
It?s been three months since the Public Utility Commission ruled that the city of Georgetown could take control of the water underneath the Chisholm Trail Special Utility District, setting the stage for a lawsuit and water war between a large, growing city and the rural Central Texas residents surrounding it.
Source: Water War: Georgetown rules Chisholm Trail – The Killeen Daily Herald: Local News