[mattdavis11]

We received some much needed rain last night/early this morning in the DFW area. They'll ask us to cut back voluntarily eventually, maybe even mandatory this summer if it keeps going the way it has.

Here, we pipe water in from east Texas under a Jr. water right that was obtained years ago. Some cities have their own contracts with various reservoirs throughout the state, some are lucky to have an abundance of water. West Texas prays for rain while east Texas flaunts the fact that they have too much and won't sell it.

I used to lobby for the Coastal Conservation Association in Austin, and every legislative session we'd have to fight against inter-basin transfers. They would rather have had fresh water flows into the bays and estuaries than drinking water via a pipe from the Guadalupe river to San Antonio. We used to say that people in San Antonio would have to sprinkle Ozarka on their lawns just because CCA wanted water at the coast so fish could fuch. It was sad. It was a tough sell, drinking water for people's survival, or fish. Needless to say, we blocked the transfers and advocated for study committees on in-stream flows.

I couldn't fight that fight anymore, it was wrong, so I don't.

I can't remember exactly what the estimate is, but something near every 20 miles you drive west in Texas, there is a decrease of an inch of rain on average (yearly ave.)