Who owns groundwater in the aquifer?
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Web Posted: 02/18/2010 12:00 CST
Who owns groundwater in the aquifer?
By Colin McDonald – Express-News
AUSTIN — The ownership and control of groundwater pumping rights in Texas is now in the hands of the state Supreme Court.
On Wednesday, the nine justices heard arguments in a case that pits the right of a landowner near Von Ormy to pump from the Edwards Aquifer against the government’s authority to regulate the use of ground and surface water.
For more than a decade, the Edwards Aquifer Authority has argued that in order for it to regulate pumping, landowners cannot own the water in the Edwards Aquifer.
It was first time the state’s highest court considered that argument.