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TODAY—Perrier counters that testing by Texas officials
showed that the Ozarka operation did not appear to have
a negative impact on the well.
SOS—“Perrier
did not prove that their pumping had no negative impact.
The court ruled that under current Texas water laws, there
was nothing they could do about the impact on neighboring
wells.”
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Texas
West
Texans Sizzle Over a Plan to Sell Their Water
Angry West Texans and some state officials are demanding a halt
to a deal that allows a group of politically well-connected Midland
oilmen to tap the desert and sell billions of gallons of water
from the state's public reserves. The oil and gas businessmen
who formed Rio Nuevo bring together Texans like T. Boone Pickens
and others who are being called water speculators.
T.
Boone Pickens in Texas
The notorious oilman has acquired land overlying the Ogallala
aquifer and wants to pump and sell as much as 200,000 acre-feet
of groundwater annually to one of Texas’ metropolitan centers.
Sleepless
in Midland
The New York Times has published an article about the proposal
by Rio Nuevo, Ltd., to lease water rights under far west Texas
land owned by the state of Texas. The Times mostly rehashes much
of what we already knew, but there is some background about how
it all came about, and the parts involving Texas House Speaker
Tom Craddick make for interesting reading:
Rule
of capture to be reviewed by lawmakers
As concerns grow about the management of Texas water resources,
state officials will revisit the so-called “rule of capture,”
the law which has governed the use of groundwater in Texas for
almost a century.
Plan
would sell Texans back their own water
Imagine for a moment: water-starved El Paso paying a private company
for water belonging to El Pasoans and other Texans. It could happen
under a proposal being developed in closed meetings between a
Midland-based consortium and state officials at the General Land
Office and School Land Board.
Texas:
T. Boone Pickens
The notorious oilman has acquired land overlying the Ogallala
aquifer and wants to pump and sell as much as 200,000 acre-feet
of groundwater annually to one of Texas’ metropolitan centers.
Water
rights to be auctioned on eBay
An online auction to benefit an effort to build a new library,
archives and museum in Uvalde will include the right to pump 326,000
gallons of water a year from the Edwards Aquifer.
 When
Perrier Came To Texas, The Water Left
When God created Texas, he planted the factories and five-lane
highways in Dallas, but he smiled on rural east Texas. He gave
it sweet gum and dogwood trees, sand as fine as sugar, and streams
that wind around hills.
Perrier
to build third bottling plant in the US
Perrier Group of America has recently begun construction on a
new bottled water plant in Hawkins, Texas.
The
biggest pump wins
Texas
Supreme Court to decide landowners protected from Aquifer drainage
Opponents
of Perrier turn eyes to Texas
November 24, 1998 - St. Pete Times
Texas
Supreme Court to hear Rohr Springs water rights case
August 29, 1998
High
court agrees to hear Ozarka case
August 26th, 1998
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