Coffee anyone ?

[RollingAcres]

If I drink that much coffee I'd be like this

 

[Latestarter]

I'm worried about being able to maintain our coffee drinking schedule if we have to cut our water usage. Coffee or bathing? Coffee or laundry? Choices . . . .

The choice is easy! ALL of them! Just as soon as you move out of that socialist/fascist empire known as CA. I really can't comprehend how people have allowed the govt to take such control... and it just elevates every year... We have nice warm and moist places here in East TX, or you can move incrementally westward for increasing dryness until you get to Greybeard TX...

 

[Bruce]

If they moved to "Greybeard, TX" seems like the only difference from where they are now is who is keeping them from using as much water as is reasonable is the controller - CA govt or Mother Nature.

 

[Baymule]

I love East Texas.

 

[greybeard]

I really can't comprehend how people have allowed the govt to take such control... ...

I can.
People have become lazy, and have come to expect the other guy to do the heavy lifting in society.
"For evil to flourish, all that is required is for good men to do nothing" Burke

 

[Skiesblue]

I love East Texas.

I got here as soon as I could. I have lived all over the country and I like this the best.

 

[greybeard]

If they moved to "Greybeard, TX" seems like the only difference from where they are now is who is keeping them from using as much water as is reasonable is the controller - CA govt or Mother Nature.

You can use all you can capture in Texas. Just ask Clayton Williams Sr.


Jeff Williams manages his family’s 18,000-acre farm outside Fort Stockton. Their land sits on top of five different prolific aquifers on the southeastern edge of the Permian Basin. Standing by an irrigation ditch, shooting water to a fish pond, he acknowledges that his family isn’t the most popular in the neighborhood. They’re the biggest consumers of water in Pecos County. His grandfather, Clayton Williams Sr., is notorious for pumping nearby Comanche Springs dry in the ’50s.

It used to be a West Texas oasis, like nearby Balmorhea. Once it dried up, a new pool filled with chlorinated water was built on top of the town’s old spring-fed pool.

Farmers downstream of the springs filed a lawsuit against Clayton Williams and 25 of his neighbors to stop the pumping. But in 1954, they lost the case. In Texas, according to the long-standing rule of capture, the water beneath your land is yours to do with as you please.

“If you’re property owner in Texas, you hold that right very near and dear to your heart,” Williams says. “That goes up there with god, country, family, and your property.”

It's been challenged lots of times, and the challengers have always lost, but lots of outsiders have moved here since the '50s especially in the Hill Country, around Dallas and Houston and they've brought their thoughts and attitudes with them. Every few years, some moron proposes a change to the Texas law and constitution to do away with rule of capture. And, every few years, someone that has come in and bought property closest to the Gulf of Mexico pushes or sues for a change to the Tx law and constitution that says there is no such thing as privately owned beachfront property too. So far, they lose, but eventually, they'll get their way and Texas as we have always known it, will be gone forever. (Hopefully by then, so will I because I dang sure don't want to live long enough to see it happen)

 

[Mini Horses]

Only time we've had water restrictions here was during a very unusual drought many years ago. They did limit things, like watering lawns, washing cars, filling pools, etc. But a private well was in no way controlled & could be used however wanted. They did ask a sign be placed AND they did check to see you actually had an operating well in housing neighborhoods. Rural, no questions.

While they requested & preached to all about conserving, they did not limit gallons per person, house, etc. Fined if you were caught doing restricted activity in use.

There's always jugs of bottled water to buy for drinking, cooking, etc. Certainly the gov hasn't limited those sales in CA! What freaks me are the states that say they can control you from catching rainwater

I have an excellent well but, I don't waste water.

What is CA doing to "correct" their water shortage? Desalination would be a huge consideration, IMO.

 

[Mini Horses]

with rule of capture

In VA you own everything above and below your deeded land, so any water, minerals, etc. are yours -- unless a previous owner sold the rights -- that means we can mine, pump, collect all that is within our boundaries.

 

[greybeard]

Only time we've had water restrictions here was during a very unusual drought many years ago. They did limit things, like watering lawns, washing cars, filling pools, etc. But a private well was in no way controlled & could be used however wanted. They did ask a sign be placed AND they did check to see you actually had an operating well in housing neighborhoods. Rural, no questions.

While they requested & preached to all about conserving, they did not limit gallons per person, house, etc. Fined if you were caught doing restricted activity in use.

There's always jugs of bottled water to buy for drinking, cooking, etc. Certainly the gov hasn't limited those sales in CA! What freaks me are the states that say they can control you from catching rainwater

I have an excellent well but, I don't waste water.

What is CA doing to "correct" their water shortage? Desalination would be a huge consideration, IMO.

"What is CA doing to "correct" their water shortage? Desalination would be a huge consideration, IMO."

Black Balls seems to be their current answer.......

Anything besides water (minerals, oil, & gas) can and is sold as a right in Texas, and the newest one is the wind above your land. That, is your's as well,to sell or not to sell.

"Sell your land if you need to, but never sell your mineral (or wind) rights".