“One thing that I think that we have here in Bexar County, over a lot of other delegations, is our water knowledge,” SAWS President and CEO Robert Puente said. “We’ve had so many water fights within San Antonio.'
The Texas House lost an influential water champion when Lyle Larson retired last year, but a state surplus and a new water caucus could mean progress on some of the state's most pressing water issues.With its rich and complicated water history, San Antonio could play a substantial role in how state water challenges are addressed this legislative session, even without former State Rep. Lyle Larson , long considered one of the state’s most influential water champions.
The goal of caucus is to educate members about the critical water issues facing the state, with an eye toward using some of the $188 billion available for the next budget to help secure Texas’ water future. “We have a lot of competing interests fighting for some of that surplus funding and so [the caucus] is really a consolidated effort there,” she said. “There’s also a need to invest in the next generation of water champions at the legislature.”
During his time in office, Larson was critical to passing many critical water bills, which, among other accomplishments, created a more robust process for planning and implementing flood projects, advance desalination, aquifer storage and recovery and brackish groundwater development. That bill, championed by former Sen. J.E. “Buster” Brown , who left office in 2002, and today sits on the board of the Texas Water Foundation, included an objective that will sound familiar: raising awareness around water issues, Larson said.
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