How Can Property Rights in Subsurface Water Work in West Texas?
March 28, 2011
Michael Giberson Texans who have drawn there water supplies from the vast but shrinking Ogallala Aquifer are engaged in a complex process of clarifying and/or renegotiating a more exact notion of just what rights they have to access the resource. A story in the Sunday Lubbock Avalanche-Journal provides an update. Some clever “enviropreneurs”, to invoke … More How Can Property Rights in Subsurface Water Work in West Texas?