Hays County water fight is back on, 3 years after residents’ big win
Three years ago, Hays County’s grass-roots Save Our Wells group took on a Houston-based company that found a regulatory loophole allowing it to pump millions of gallons of water from the already-strained Trinity Aquifer and sell it. The dispute culminated in a legislative victory that brought a lawmaker to tears and placed Electro Purification’s project under the jurisdiction of a groundwater conservation district, alleviating fears that it would suck water from hundreds of residential wells in the Wimberley Valley. But now…
