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  1. Texas Water Development Board, Water for Texas 1990: Today and Tomorrow (Austin: TWDB, 1990), 1-8.

  2. Texas Water Development Board, Texas Water Facts (Austin: TWDB, 1991), 2.

  3. Texas Water Commission,, State of Texas Water Quality Inventory, 11th Edition (Austin: TWC, 1992), 8.

  4. Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts, Forces of Change: Shaping the Future of Texas, Volume II, Part 1(Austin: TCPA, November 1993), 413.

  5. Texas Water Development Board, Water for Texas 1990: Today and Tomorrow, 1-8.

  6. Texas Water Development Board, Water for Texas 1990: Today and Tomorrow, I-4.

  7. Texas Groundwater Protection Committee, Texas Groundwater Protection Strategy (Austin: TWC, January 1989), 10.

  8. Texas Water Development Board, Water for Texas 1990, 3-2.

  9. Information provided by the Texas Water Development Board, "County Summary Historical Water Use" (Austin: TWDB, 1993).

  10. It is important to differentiate between water withdrawals versus water consumed. For example, the thermo-electric power generation sector withdraws about 40 to 45 percent of all water in Texas, but consumes only about 3 percent, since most is returned as stream flow. World Resources Institute, The 1994 Information Please Environmental Almanac (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1994), 272.

  11. Ronald Kaiser, A Handbook of Texas Water Law: Problems and Needs (College Station: Texas Water Resources Institute, Texas A & M University, 1986).

  12. Ronald Kaiser, A Handbook of Texas Water Law: Problems and Needs, 32.

  13. Ronald Kaiser, A Handbook of Texas Water Law: Problems and Needs, 18-19.

  14. Texas Water Commission, Reallocating Surface Waters in Texas: Facilitating the Development of Water Makets While Protecting the Public Interest (Austin: TWC, 1992), 2.

  15. Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts, Forces of Change: Shaping the Future of Texas Volume II, Part 1 (Austin: TCPA, November 1993), 414.

  16. Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts, Forces of Change: Shaping the Future of Texas Volume II, Part 1 , 415.

  17. Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission, TNRCC Water Rights Data Base.

  18. Texas Water Development Board, Water for Texas 1990, 1-8.

  19. Mike Personett, Texas Water Development Board, "The Evolution of State Water Conservation Policy in Texas" (Las Vegas, Nevada: Paper presented at Conserve 93, December, 1993), 5.

  20. William Goldfarb, Water Law (Stoneham, Mass: Butterworth Publishers, 1984).

  21. Texas Water Development Board, Water for Texas 1992: Today and Tomorrow (Austin: TWDB, 1992), 10-11.

  22. Texas Water Development Board, Texas Water Facts, 9.

  23. Pequod Associates, Inc., Texas Industrial Water Usage Survey (Pequod Associates, Austin, August 1993). This special survey conducted for the Texas Water Development Board found that the semiconductor industry has reduced their water use by 33 percent over the past few years.

  24. Houston &; TC Railway v. East 98 Tex 146, 81 SW 279 (1904). This 1904 court case established that groundwater was equivalent to a property right.

  25. Ernest Smerdon, et. al., State Water Policies: A Study of Six States (New York: Praeger, 1988).

  26. Texas Water Development Board, Water for Texas, 1990, 2-8.

  27. Texas Water Development Board, Water for Texas 1990, 2-8.

  28. Texas Water Development Board, Water For Texas 1990, 2-9.

  29. Ric Jensen, "Indoor Water Conservation: Toilets, Shower Heads, Washing Machines and Faucets Can All Use Less Water," Texas Water Resources (College Station: Vol. 17, no. 4), 1.

  30. Ric Jensen, "Indoor Water Conservation: Toilets, Shower Heads, Washing Machines and Faucets Can All Use Less Water," Texas Water Resources, 1.

  31. Ric Jensen, "Indoor Water Conservation: Toilets, Shower Heads, Washing Machines and Faucets Can All Use Less Water," Texas Water Resources, 1.

  32. Texas Water Development Board, Water for Texas 1990, 1-1.

  33. Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission, The State of Texas Water Quality Inventory, 12th Edition (Austin: TNRCC, 1994).

  34. Mike Personett, Texas Water Development Board, "The Evolution of State Water Conservation Policy in Texas," 1.

  35. Texas Water Development Board, Water For Texas 1990, 3-3.

  36. Texas Water Development Board, Texas Water Facts, 9.

  37. Texas Water Development Board, Water for Texas 1990, Table 3-1 and information from Texas Water Development Board, "Draft Projections of Population and Water Use," 1996 Consensus Texas Water Plan (Austin: TWDB, 1994).

  38. Comer Tuck Jr., Texas Water Development Board, "Agricultural Water Conservation Programs in Texas" (Las Vegas, Nevada: Paper presented at Conserve 1993, December, 1993).

  39. Information provided by Texas Water Development Board, Planning Division, "County Summary Historical Water Use" (Austin: TWDB, 1993).

  40. Information provided by Texas Water Development Board, Planning Division, "1990 Groundwater Pumpage Summary by Major Aquifers" (Austin: TWDB, 1993).

  41. Information provided by Texas Water Development Board, Planning Division, "County Summary Historical Water Use."

  42. Information provided by Texas Water Development Board, Planning Division, "County Summary Historical Water Use."

  43. Texas Water Development Board, Texas Water Facts, 7.

  44. Texas Water Development Board, Water for Texas 1990, 3-59.

  45. Texas Water Development Board. Water for Texas 1990, 2-9 and information provided by TWDB, Planning Division, "Historical Per Capita Water Use."

  46. Mike Personett, Texas Water Development Board. "The Evolution of State Water Conservation Policy in Texas," 9.

  47. Texas Water Development Board, Water For Texas 1990, 3-1.

  48. Texas Water Development Board, Water For Texas 1990, 3-1.

  49. Texas Water Development Board, Water For Texas 1990, 3-1.

  50. William H. Hoffman, 1993, "Industrial Water Conservation and Reuse in Texas: The Big Picture," Watertech '93, pp. 82 - 87.

  51. Texas Water Development Board, Water for Texas 1990, 3-3.

  52. Texas Water Development Board, Water For Texas 1990, 3-1.

  53. Information from "Draft Projections of Population and Water Use," 1996 Consensus Water Plan, (Austin: Texas Water Development Board, 1994).

  54. Janice Bezanson, Texas Committee on Natural Resources, interview with Texas Center for Policy Studies, April 1994.

  55. Kevin Mayes, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, interview with Texas Center for Policy Studies, August, 1994.

  56. The Dallas Morning News. 1994-1995 Texas Almanac. (Dallas: The Dallas Morning News, 1993), 118.

  57. Al Green, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, interview with Texas Center for Policy Studies, August, 1994.

  58. Information for this section is from: Texas Water Development Board, Water for Texas 1990, 3-57 - 3-94; Texas Water Development Board "County Summary Historical Water Use;" Texas Water Commission State of Texas Water Quality Inventory, 11th Edition.; and Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission, State of Texas Water Quality Inventory, 12th Edition.

  59. Texas Water Commission, The State of Texas Water Quality Inventory, 11th Edition, 131.

  60. Mike Personett, Director of Local and Regional Assistance Division, Texas Water Development Board, interview with Texas Center for Policy Studies, March 1994.

  61. Texas Water Development Board. Water and Wastewater Needs for Colonias 1995 Update (Austin: TWDB, 1995).

  62. Texas Water Development Board, "Projected Water Availability in 2040 with Current Inter-Basin Agreements and No New Facilities" (Austin: TWDB, 1993).

  63. Texas Water Development Board, Texas Water Facts, 12.

  64. Texas Water Development Board, Water and Wastewater Needs for Colonias in Texas (Austin: TWDB, 1992), executive summary.

  65. Texas Water Development Board, Texas Water Facts, 13.

  66. Information provided by Watershed Management Division, Water Resource Management, Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission.

  67. The Dallas Morning News. 1994 - 1995 Texas Almanac, 84.

  68. Little Sandy Hunting and Fishing Club, Little Sandy Hunting and Fishing Conservation Easement (Dallas: Little Sandy Hunting and Fishing Club, 1987), 2.

  69. Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts. Forces of Change: Shaping the Future of Texas, Vol II, no.1, 415.

  70. Texas Water Development Board, Water for Texas 1990, 2-6 - 2-11.

  71. All proposed reservoirs must undergo a federal permitting process to protect wetlands and environmental habitats.

  72. Texas Water Development Board, Water for Texas 1992, 99.

  73. Information from Texas Water Development Board, "County Summary Historical Water Use."

  74. This section is based upon information taken from various sources, including: Texas Water Development Board. Texas Water Facts (Austin: TWDB, 1991), Texas Water Development Board, Water for Texas, 1992 (Austin: TWDB, 1992), and Mark Jordan, Director, Water Policy Division, Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission, "Alternative Water Development Strategies," TNRCC internal memo, October 1993.

  75. Texas Water Development Board, Texas Water Facts, 13.

  76. Texas Water Development Board, Desalination in Texas: A Status Report (Austin: TWDB, 1992).
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