Turning a Water Plan into Water Dan Hardin, Director of Water Resource Planning

Water Planning: Legislative Response to Drought Late 1950s Drought of Record – 1957: Creation of TWDB – $200 million Water Development Fund – 9 State Water Plans, Late 1990s: Potential New Drought of Record – ~$6 billion economic losses in 96 (mostly agriculture) – ~300 entities with threat to water supplies – 1997 & 2001: Passage of SB 1 & 2 which created & refined regional water planning 2

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Regional Water Planning Statutory interests: Public Counties Municipalities Water districts Water utilities Groundwater management areas Industries Agriculture Environment Small businesses Electric-generating utilities River authorities 6

Projected Texas Population 7

Projected Population Growth in Texas Counties 8

Projected Water Demands and Existing Supplies 9

Projected Need for Additional Water in Times of Drought 10

Year 2010Year 2060 (millions of acre-feet per year) Water Shortages by Water User Group

Water Supplies from Water Management Strategies 12

Relative Volumes of Recommended Strategies (2060) 13 < 1%

Total Water Supply Capital Costs: $53 Billion 15

Cost of 2012 State Water Plan 16 $53.1 billion to implement Project sponsors need access to $26.9 billion of project capital costs through state assistance Financing State Water Plan Projects

Cost of Not Implementing Plan Recommendations $12 billion lost income $116 billion lost income – 2060 State/local business taxes lost: $1 billion – 2010 State/local business taxes lost: $10 billion – 2060 Lost jobs : 115,000 – 2010 Lost jobs: 1 million – 2060 Lost population growth: 1.4 million

Barriers to Implementation 18 State has no authority to require implementation of projects State has devoted limited financial resources to encourage implementation Local entities reluctant to impose costs of projects and associated debt on constituents Lack of recognition that there is a problem or of the benefits of taking action

What can we do to encourage implementation? Education – Its possible to turn on a tap and have nothing come out! – Water is not an unlimited resource, it is limited and needs to be valued as such – Investment maintains secure supplies, brings economic benefits through construction, and avoids cost of shortages 19

Implementing the State Water Plan Whats in it for me? 20

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