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‘Water Is the New Oil’ as Texas Cities Square Off Over Aquifer Pipelines (insideclimatenews.org)
submitted 3 days ago by relianceschool@lemmy.world to c/collapse@sopuli.xyz
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In Central Texas, a bitter fight over a $1 billion water project offers a preview of the future for much of the state as decades of rapid growth push past the local limits of its most vital natural resource.

On one side: Georgetown, the fastest growing city in America for three years straight, which in 2023 signed a contract with an investor-funded enterprise to quickly begin importing vast volumes of water from the Simsboro Formation of the Carrizo Wilcox Aquifer, 80 miles to the east.

On the other side: the cities atop the Simsboro that rely on its water. Bryan, College Station and the Texas A&M University System, a metro area with almost 300,000 people, have sued a local regulator to stop the project. A trial is set for the first week of May.

District manager Alan Day feels for the cities of Bryan and College Station. To an extent, he said, they are right. The more pumping from the aquifer, the sooner everyone will reach conditions of scarcity, though he doesn’t think it will happen as quickly as city leaders say.

At the same time, he said, “Bryan can’t claim the water.” Groundwater is a private property right in Texas as sacred as any other. Everyone is allowed to pump whatever their land produces.

“Water is the new oil,” said Day, a former ranch manager of 27 years. “They have a commodity that can be sold and they have every right to sell it.”

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[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

“Water is the new oil,”

Nope, water is as valuable as it ever was, y'all just willingly entered into the delusion water wasn't necessary for your survival.

[–] relianceschool@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I see this less as a reference to value, and more as a reference to scarcity. The two are linked, of course, but for most of recent history we've been thinking of water as a free/abundant public resource that (literally) falls out of the sky. Now that water rights, water futures, and pipelines are in the picture, we're starting to treat water more as a private commodity. And yes, the implications of that are very scary.

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 1 points 11 hours ago

but for most of recent history we’ve been thinking of water as a free/abundant public resource that (literally) falls out of the sky

Yup it is fucking dumb, and in the US I watched for most of my life growing up people to moving to places that have NO WATER or are extremely susceptible to heat waves.

We entering an era of mass death, of radical devaluing of human lives, of wars but more importantly of rolling climate catastrophes that are allowed to brutalize and kill citizens while governments choose to normalize these new conditions rather than doing anything to stop them.

I think your framing here gives business people and politicians WAYYY too much credit though, water has never not been valuable, to EVER think of water as a silly detail was always a murderously stupid choice, even if there wasn't any immediate concern about running out of water, water is vital. The people who made these choices are fundamentally uncurious assholes who don't even think about the earth system as something separate from human desires and whims.