The new water wars!

kjm

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Recently, smaller towns and counties in Texas are fearing that larger towns will be taking their water. San Antonio is trying hard to get the rights to water all over the state while the San Antonio Golf courses remain green as ever. I heard some farmers talking of doing everything from shooting the pipeline ala target of opportunity, or just losing the pretense and dynamiting the pipelines and water wells. This will be something funny to watch.
Those who depend on their wells not running dry in order to water livestock and crops won't be too pleased to find their wells have been pumped dry, and the water shipped off to water a Municipal golf course, or to run a car wash. They also know that these small counties of 15K people aren't going to win the political battles against a behemoth like San Antonio. What other recourse do they have besides being such a pain-in-the-butt, that the city has to do something else for water? Any ideas? This might be an interesting episode in the ongoing saga that is Texas Culture.
 
California went through that with the Owens Valley water wars. Still a lot of problems there.

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