GOVT 2306 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Statutory Law, Aquifer, Environmental Flow
23 Feb 2016
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59% of water used comes from aquifers, mostly used for irrigation. Others come from surface sources like rivers and reservoirs. Water policy is complicated by regions of droughts and floods. Reservoirs were built to more effectively distribute water during times of shortage and control flooding. Water policy in texas is a system of private property rights from. Legal classes of water rights for surface water and groundwater, governed by different rules. Law of capture - the idea that the first person to capture water or oil by pumping it out of the ground and using it, owns that water or oil. Landowners can own as much of the water/oil in their property. Undercut efforts of planning authorities to develop a plan for an area that takes into account short term and long term availability of water and competing uses for it o. Innovations put into place by the state legislature in 1900"s.
