The city is building a pipeline to transfer water from the Coleman County lake. Brown filed a bill in 1999 to repeal the junior rights provision to make sure communities could get water from other parts of the state. The bill passed in the Senate and died in the House. Brown said water planners need to be able to consider using groundwater and surface water to meet demands over the coming 50 years. Providing incentives and regulatory flexibility for desalination, brush control and weather modification.
Desalination turns salt water from the Gulf of Mexico into drinking water.
Brush control ensures brush doesn't soak up valuable water supplies. Cloud seeding, also known as weather modification, injects chemicals into clouds to cause more rain to fall. E.W. Scripps Publications , All Rights Reserved. Site users are subject to our User Agreement . We also have a Privacy Policy .