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LeftInTX

(25,300 posts)

7. In Texas we have the "rule of capture"

Reply to WillyT (Original post)

Tue Nov 20, 2012, 02:02 AM

Nov 2012

You can pump as much water as you want. The larger the pump, the more water you have. That is what's happening on the Olgalalla. A few years ago, T Boone Pickens bought a bunch of land on the Olgalalla instead of oil, he drilled water and started his own water company. His intention is to sell it.

In other words, in their eyes, the less rules and regulations, the more water.

It probably doesn't make sense, but that's how they see it.

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