Rural Texans unite against water curtailment
Colorado River algae prompting call to action
July 9, 2013With drought comes downturn in hydroelectricity generation
May 30, 2014Southwest Farm Press
Newly appointed Texas Commission of Environmental Quality (TCEQ) Executive Director Richard Hyde, knowingly or not, drew a line in the sand Jan. 27 when he approved the Lower Colorado River Authority’s (LCRA) controversial request for emergency drought relief for 2014.
The order, if allowed to stand, would effectively cut off irrigation water to Texas rice growers in Matagorda, Colorado, and Wharton counties, the state’s premier rice growing region, for a third straight year. The emergency order would also affect LCRA customers in Fayette and Bastrop counties as well.