Help Decide The Future of Your Groundwater
August 26, 2008
The Board of Preserve Our Water strongly supports the following message from David K. Langford, Advisory Board member of the Hill Country Alliance.
The POW Board has adopted a resolution on this matter – the willful ignoring of the effects of severe drought in area groundwater planning by Groundwater Management Area 9. That resolution is posted on the Preserve Our Water website and has been distributed to all GMA 9 representatives from the various Groundwater Conservation Districts. Also posted is a brief document (Drought of Record and DFC Planning) that explains why the excuses for ignoring serious drought are baseless.
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Don’t Allow This Opportunity To Go To Waste
August 8, 2008
This summer, Central Texas is experiencing an “exceptional” drought, the highest intensity of drought as categorized by the U.S. Drought Monitor. Drought means less rainfall to recharge to our underground aquifers and it can also result in higher groundwater pumping demand. As a result, water levels in Hill Country wells are declining and springs are running dry. It’s bad this year, but we’ve seen worse. Back in the 1950s, it took more than seven years for the rains to finally replenish drought-stricken parts of Texas.
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