BOARD00197

• Board Meeting Date: 10/24/1988
• Description: CWCB Meeting
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

Oasis, the Texaq Legislature has Dejun includin~ water conservation progran

raquiranents in the enabling legislation for certain special districts and

WQter authorities. 8xanples of this type of legislation are presented below.

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Nueces aiver Authority

Under the requirenents of Article 8280-115, Section 3.22A, wes, the Nueces

River Authority (NRA) of South Texas becane the first regional water authority

in Texas to develop and implenent a canprehensive regional plan for water

conservcltion and drought .l\..-\na;Jenent. The statute required that the Authority

develop ,lOd lnplenent a re'J ional plan that had been approved by the 'fexas

Water Dev.;lopnent Board to address "the practices, techniques, and

technol?~ies that will reduce the cons~nption of 'Hater, improve the efficiency

in the u,;a of water, or increase the recyclin<J and reuse of water so that a

water su!?ply is ;naie available for future or alternative uses..." 'l'he NIlA

canp1eted atrl. T:'IDB ap[lroved the required plan in 1986.

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Edwards Underground Water Distric~

House sill 1942, passed by the 70th Texas Legislature in 1987, requires the

rd\~ads Underground Water District, which is responsible for mana;JirYj the

sole-source rdW3ds I'qulfar in Central Texas, to de'Telop, implement, and

enforce one or Inore drought ,nanagement plans in order to minimize, as far as

practicable, the dra\;down of the water table or the reduction of. artesian

pressure and spring flow; to prevent waste; and to protect the groundwater

resource fron serious harn. The District has just initiated work to develop

the required drought .nana;Jenent plan(s) .

In the future, other regional water authorities and special districts, such as

underground water districts, will be required to develop similar plan;; and .

. program; for water conservation and drought management.

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