Over the past several months I have been working with several municipalities and private companies concerning their water requirements. There is a major shortage of water in Texas compounded by the current drought. Back in the early 1960’s Texas knew the need for water would outstrip water resource availability and this would hamper fundamental growth in major metropolitan areas. Other areas that would feel the impact due to the lack of viable water resources would be power companies, agribusiness, manufacturing, residential and business construction.
The problem we have is that no one has been telling the public what dire straits we are really in when it comes to water in Texas. If you read the papers, as I am sure most of us do, you will notice articles about the drought. When interviewed by the press most all of the representatives from the water utilities say the same thing… “All we need is a couple of really good rains and we will be ok.” This is a ridiculous statement. You see the fact is that if we were to pump 250 million gallons of water a day into the lakes and reservoirs in Texas… AND there is no evaporation from the sun… AND no water is pumped out of the lakes by the municipalities… it would still take 22 years to fill up our current lakes. Do you really believe that “a couple of good rains” will fix our problem? We need to seriously look at our solutions and begin working on them TODAY.
normbangle 