Water rights have been bartered, litigated, fought over, bought and sold and are as contentious today as ever. But with improved technologies, one option to mitigate the water problems of the future deserving consideration is desalination – producing drinking water from seawater or brackish groundwater. This report succinctly explores the opportunities and costs of desalination.
S.A. project shows free-market water program can work
You’ve got to be tough to live in Texas. Twenty years ago this year, after a long history of persistent drought and damaging floods, the Texas legislature passed Senate Bill 1, the first landmark water bill to create the regional and state water planning processes we know and use today. This 20th anniversary marks...