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As a water-scarce state with deep cultural attachments to private property rights, Texas has taken a unique evolutionary path with regard to water management. This new resource surveys past and current challenges for managing both groundwater and surface water, telling a comprehensive story about water policy in Texas, and identifying opportunities for improving future governance. Texas is the U.S. state that has experimented most thoroughly with water markets. In Water Policy in Texas, experts from broad disciplinary perspectives describe and analyze Texas water laws and management agencies.
Chapter 1. Experiments in Water Policy -- Chapter 2. Texas Water Resources -- Chapter 3. Texas Water Law and Organizations -- Chapter 4. Texas Water Marketing and Pricing -- Chapter 5. The Edwards Aquifer: Hydrology, Ecology, History, and Law -- Chapter 6. The Importance of Freshwater Inflows to Texas Estuaries -- Chapter 7. Water for the Environment: Updating Texas Water Law -- Chapter 8. Texas Boundary Water Agreements -- Chapter 9. Groundwater Depletion in the Texas High Plains -- Chapter 10. Advanced Technologies for Tapping Unconventional Texas Waters -- Chapter 11. Water Management Guidance from Texas.
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Water Policy in Texas : Responding to the Rise of Scarcity