TREND. Water Rights in Texas. Compensation + Consent.

What are we talking about specifically? 2015, 2017 & 2019 legislative attempts by retail public water utilities to mandate how groundwater conservation districts should allocate groundwater rights

Texas Farm Bureau lays out 3 reasons why this taking water rights is unconstitutional:

• The groundwater rights were being allocated to the public water utilities without the owners consent, simply by location within a CCN
• The Rule of Capture decision by the Texas Supreme Court related to oil and gas should apply here too
• If retail utilities want the water, ask for consent and pay compensation

Huntsville Item | Taking water rights without consent is unconstitutional