This has got to be an NBU directive to HOA's. NBU has worked w/builders to go 50/50 on grass/dry element the last three years. Stage 2 anything goes. Stage 3 it becomes a directive to builders. BUT, to stay proactive, I agree, lush green grass is not sustainable here. Bermuda and St. Augustine are not the answer. Both suck water like there's no tomorrow
Over 10 years ago I had a small nursery at local hardware store in a small town located at Lake Travis. I stocked it with Texas natives and well adapted plants. One of my goals was to educate new residents that had just relocated that the hill country is nothing like where they came from. People would walk around my nursery looking at the plants with a look on their faces like I just cut a fart. The most common comment was " We want to do what we had were we came from." I would inform them as to the whys that would not work here and universally the response was, 'Oh we can do it.' I have more hilarious stories about peoples attempts and failures. However now it's just kinda sad.
I used to work at a Nursery in Corpus Christi years ago. When people would want to grow certain plants and I would try and tell them how to amend the soil for the best results, the response was ussually in Washington (state), we didn't have to do all that. When I tried to show them alternate native plants, it was ususally met with that same look of disgust. Water conservation is only a part of it when it comes to growing plants. Some plants are going to deplete your time and finances keeping up with the requirements of northern native plants. But as far as conservation? What would happen if more locals had at least a 200 gallon tank to catch roof runoff when it rains, and have grey water (not toilet, but shower and sinks) systems to water lawn?
The old timers in the 70's when I used to come up to Lake Travis to water ski would say 'There never going to build here there is not enough water'. Never underestimate greed.
I’m in Houston and am working on planting native grasses. I already grow native plants for enjoyment. I’m excited to plant a mix of native grasses because of what they do for protecting soil and locking the trees into the ground.
There are cities all over the state who are denying new water meters. I know 2 new lakes were recently built in Texas but they better start building more or limit the number of new homes being built.
So much growth in TX just in the last 5 years. Williamson County, specifically, Liberty Hill which is about 1.5 hours South of us has tripled its population in the last 4 years. Water has been a problem because most folks who came specifically from the West likes to water their yard every day and most don't care if the water level is going down. Really sad.
As a landscape contractor from the West coast, they learned a lot going through past droughts. As they drilled down on who and how much water was being consumed, what they discovered wasn't what they intended to find. I believe the discussion on water usage only begins and ends with residential. In Oregon they discovered that 70 % was commercial mismanagement. I believe your discussion needs to fan out and discuss golf courses, parks, schools, etc. PS, our neighborhood assoc. required large amount of grass, which now because being a part of our bi-laws cannot be resended.
Several years ago I started landscaping with Texas natives or adaptive plants. 80% of my yard is Texas natives. This fall and winter my plan is to completely remove my remaining grass (with HOA approval) I will add more natives, hardscape and finish everything off with composte mulch. Future plans are to add 2 rain cisterns for rain harvesting.
@@TheGonebald thank you for input. Is it a new build community or older neighborhood? HOA’s need to get on board with native especially when you consider it helps the ecosystem and saves water. Bermuda and St Augustine are water suckers
Smart electronic water meter is not even being used. If every home had an access to it through the NBU app so a user can see in real time their usage then people as a whole can maintain healthier levels. In addition to this each subdivision needs to consult a professional landscape architect on designs and plants that can be used for zero scape. The city keeps approving new homes to be built with lawns. Not to be negative but I simply think NB needs to own its poor management of these things.
All new builds should be required to only use native plants for landscaping. That goes for the public areas and when they are installing grass on the lots for sale. What the new owners do after buying is up to them. The house should come with native landscaping and information on how to maintain it and what there is.
Stormwater waste is correct @rebajason1460 It's much bigger than people's yards. We need permeable building materials to slowdown or stop the stormwater runoff.
Quit building It’s always amazing The greed wants more construction And then when the natural resources say no more You take it to the news Just amazing
NBU should maybe invest and build a desalination plant somewhere along the coast and pipe that water this way. I've lived in the NB-Comal County area for 31 years and all I can say is that things may get a little worse before they start to get better...
@@timbrummer7401 I think it’s how fast people can adapt. The better homes and gardens lush green grass full on isn’t financially sustainable here for any homeowner
The developers have way overbuilt with track houses and apartments. We can’t support them with water, roads, schools, law enforcement and other infrastructure. We should retroactively tax the developers.
Development can be slowed by responsible regulation but must be accompanied by long-term, big picture planning. 1. Yes, of course, require development to use native flora 2. Also, require builders to build new homes with a grey water reclamation system 3. Limit what can be pulled out of the aquifer 4. Desalination plants for each city to reclaim its waste water 5. Desalination plants on the coast to be pumped upland 6. Nuclear and or more solar and wind generation. Future energy needs will be fabulously greater than they are now. But as long as we have accessible cheap energy water will not be a problem. Numbers 4-6 are expensive but will be cheap in the long run.
People are talking nonsense saying they’ve never had this problem but the science shows the drought was worse in the 1960s. This is 100% about everyone pulling from the aquifer!
1) I am interested in how much volume if any have we sold in water rights to other users? Canyon lake has several HUGE pipes coming out of it getting sucked out like a straw every minute of everyday 2) Why are housing projects continue to be approved if the math isn't working out? We all are going to lose so we can have population/tax base growth but we will all have to leave in years to come due to it. So what's the purpose of continuing to grow the population if we all are going to pay a detrimental price? You cant provide what you dont have..stop approving housing projects. Let them go to other areas of the state that can support growth. Need to look into desalination plant and pump it back up to areas who are in drought like us in this state.
30 years ago my father in law said don’t buy a home anywhere near canyon lake because there isn’t enough water. So I didn’t. Fast forward 25 years, he must have forgotten what he said. They built a beautiful 3k square foot house in Spring Branch. The last couple of years the entire neighborhood has had a water truck filling the multi thousand gallon tanks in everyone’s front yard. I see this happening from Austin south. Too much growth for the environment. This land can only sustain so much. We will be the next California in many ways. Pretty soon we will all be drinking sewage water in south central Texas.
The fact that this conversation is missing the root cause. Geoengineering. Geoengineering has been the cause for central Texas being robbed of over 60 inches of rain in the last 4 years. It's disgusting.
@@wesbaker39 US Air Force has modified planes that spray chemicals in the sky. Depending on the concoction used (silver iodide, barium, aluminum oxide, etc) you can either form rain clouds or dissipate them. RFK Jr has stated he will end this illegal activity when he begins work under Trump's administration.
@@raadalawanrealtor That's just Texas. Texas it isn't drought, you're wondering when the next will be. I remember walking along the Cibolo, Kendall Co, Upper Cibolo Road. Starting at the 711 ranch and wading all the way down to my Aunt & Uncles ranch. The springs just bubbled up between your toes. People yammer on about climate change and then move their corporation, business & people to one of the hottest states. There were supposed to be buildinng restrictions over the recharge zone. In Boerne, places zoned as flood plane, and with good reason, now have houses all over them. My great great grandfather; built the the first Kendall Co Jail, helped design and build the courthouse. They city is planning to put a road yards from his home, still there, and will take the place I grew up and my vson & family live. The house my father was born was given an historical designation. Most of the familys that settled here before Kendall county existed, before the state or Republic existed, when it was Northern Mexico, who's homesteads remain, were acknowledged. For all the good it did. The marker is gone, it sits empty and rotting in the new Regency Park subdivision. I stood on my Großmutter's front porch and looked at the only other thing left. I'm sure the people think it just an old barbeque pit. I started to stop and tell them it's where the rectangular molasses pan sat, cooking off the juice from the cane we grew every summer. Waste of time. They probably don't even know what molasses is.
Building over the recharge zone has been discussed throughout the hill country for 30 years. But the developers keep coming. The babbling of the brook has been replaced by cha ching.
Here in Comal County, we have been on 6 hours a month maximum watering for years. The cities have the tax base and political clout to keep buying up the water rights. We have been on total outdoor watering blackout (stage 4) since july 9th. The Texas Water Company doesn't seem to have much interest in developing new water sources. Now they have slapped us with a surcharge to pay for the infratructure upgrades (not new sources) needed for all the growth along tx 46. It's a mess. We recycle 100% of our water into irrigation, but that only supports about 5,000 square feet of sod. New homes should have mandatory limits on sod, say no more sod than the finished square feet of the home. Mandatory onsite water reclaimation for lot sizes over quarter acre. Large developments are already reclaiming water and using it in common areas, vintage oaks and johnson ranch both do this, that is a good start.
@raadalawanrealtor I have had natives die off over the last couple of years, too. We have focused on more drought tollerant plants, moving to cactuses, ect. -not to mention the cost and time required of doing so. But that doesn't make one feel better when you drive into NB or SA and they are watering their green lawns, meanwhile I am banned from topping off my pool and washing my car (or using water at all) outside.
@@westerncowhand7814 right that's stage 4. You have a water provider with either less capacity for less purchasing power. What do you mean the natives died off? You watered them quite a bit at first so they get rooted, right? Green grass is pretty. It's traditional. But it's not the complete answer. Bermuda and St. Augustine both suck water big time. Then what? If you're in NB covered by NBU, you're watering your grass once a week because of stage 2 restriction. You can water it by hand every day, but only by irrigation once a week. This isn't Michigan where you have 5 great lakes. It's not the lack of water, it's the growth. The growth creates the tight supply of water. Do you think that NBU would have 8 different sources of water in its portfolio if it didn't double its population in 14 years? Of course, not. Growth creates scarcity, as demand in buyers market four years ago created scarcity of homes.
@raadalawanrealtor I don't disagree. Are we headed to a world where the cities own all the water rights and the country has very few or none? That's what happened in California, I don't think we should go that route. 1 day a week watering is soft. We could easily use 18,000 gallons a month watering one day a week. That would represent at least 3x water use increase for us. D4 Exceptional Drought over the last coupke of years, at times, especially in West Comal county has been killing established native plants like live oaks and cedars. If you drive out towards spring branch you can see the dead standing trees in the pastures, many of which died last year. It is what it is it's weather. Garden plants like lantanas, Sylvia's and such would not survive in my yard without some watering. We invested in a drip conversion system to improve efficiency and reduce water waste. I just think we should be careful giving or selling our water rights away here in the country.
I am a firm believer in letting the native plants thrive! Trying to keep that other grass green is wasteful and stupid and serves No purpose! I let my yard go native and feed it and fertilize it to keep down the weeds and keep it healthy and it looks great all year with nothing more than mowing
Mostly because you rely on yards and HOAs. Plant more trees and keep the yards natural to local environments. You want to stop using so much water then stop making us have to keep grass up that serves no purpose.
Deep rooted prairie grass is what opens up the ground to infiltrate water into the aquifer, installing fake grass on top of soil is basically turning it into concrete..
Nope. They sell water from canyon lake. As a German immigrant, I never had this problem any years. Low, but manageable. Crime and growth!!!!!!! I sold my ranch off 46. It's now becoming a huge neighborhood. They blasted the rocks, sold them, wild life had to relocate. Water temperature is down. Edwards Aquifer County is the biggest Aquifer in Texas. Piping and selling water for profit is pretty stupid. Aqua Texas corporation was fined for pumping millions of gallons over allowance. I don't recall them paying nothing. Explain, if you can! Call this old grey haired man a lier. Us land owners are selling and relocating to screw y'all. Developments received permits, they'll bite you in the butt. All businesses on river road like Koozies is also selling all locations. Enjoy what y'all did. BTW, nothing like interviewing uneducated folks who don't know development politics. Was it worth those kickbacks???? Stop giving permits. Only enough jobs , water , and food. Y'all probably got less than 5 years! Look at Frío, same thing. Third generation German immigrant rancher! This is the definition of raping the land for unwanted growth and crime. Good luck!
Too many users. Ive been saying it for years. We are full! Thanks for ruining my texas with the crazy explosion of development. Hay fileds over house fields. 😅
@@imagoodlistener2730 maybe maybe not. Sometimes it farmers not willing to take loses anymore with drought. And some farmers choose their buyers. Some don’t want to sell to residential developers
Neighborhood developers should be required to put in drought resistant landscaping.
This has got to be an NBU directive to HOA's. NBU has worked w/builders to go 50/50 on grass/dry element the last three years. Stage 2 anything goes. Stage 3 it becomes a directive to builders. BUT, to stay proactive, I agree, lush green grass is not sustainable here. Bermuda and St. Augustine are not the answer. Both suck water like there's no tomorrow
I really like Mary's yard, the native plants look great and conserve water at the same time. Being low maintenance is a huge bonus!
Over 10 years ago I had a small nursery at local hardware store in a small town located at Lake Travis. I stocked it with Texas natives and well adapted plants. One of my goals was to educate new residents that had just relocated that the hill country is nothing like where they came from. People would walk around my nursery looking at the plants with a look on their faces like I just cut a fart. The most common comment was " We want to do what we had were we came from." I would inform them as to the whys that would not work here and universally the response was, 'Oh we can do it.' I have more hilarious stories about peoples attempts and failures. However now it's just kinda sad.
@@pointnemo369 logic says what works in one part of the world doesn’t necessarily work in another part.
I am a beekeeper and love native plants.
I used to work at a Nursery in Corpus Christi years ago. When people would want to grow certain plants and I would try and tell them how to amend the soil for the best results, the response was ussually in Washington (state), we didn't have to do all that. When I tried to show them alternate native plants, it was ususally met with that same look of disgust. Water conservation is only a part of it when it comes to growing plants. Some plants are going to deplete your time and finances keeping up with the requirements of northern native plants.
But as far as conservation? What would happen if more locals had at least a 200 gallon tank to catch roof runoff when it rains, and have grey water (not toilet, but shower and sinks) systems to water lawn?
@@christophersizer6537 1k square ft is 600 gals so could easily get 20k gal in san antonio area with average rainfall.
Briliant
Stop passing out building permits like its candy. Stop all developers in new braunfels from adding more s..t here
There is for sure a special ed civil engineer hire. Drive safe lol
The old timers in the 70's when I used to come up to Lake Travis to water ski would say 'There never going to build here there is not enough water'. Never underestimate greed.
I’m in Houston and am working on planting native grasses. I already grow native plants for enjoyment. I’m excited to plant a mix of native grasses because of what they do for protecting soil and locking the trees into the ground.
There are cities all over the state who are denying new water meters. I know 2 new lakes were recently built in Texas but they better start building more or limit the number of new homes being built.
So much growth in TX just in the last 5 years.
Williamson County, specifically, Liberty Hill which is about 1.5 hours South of us has tripled its population in the last 4 years.
Water has been a problem because most folks who came specifically from the West likes to water their yard every day and most don't care if the water level is going down. Really sad.
Check out what Tucson Az is doing with parking lots, street drainage, and water sheds utilizing beaver dam analogs.
As a landscape contractor from the West coast, they learned a lot going through past droughts. As they drilled down on who and how much water was being consumed, what they discovered wasn't what they intended to find. I believe the discussion on water usage only begins and ends with residential. In Oregon they discovered that 70 % was commercial mismanagement. I believe your discussion needs to fan out and discuss golf courses, parks, schools, etc. PS, our neighborhood assoc. required large amount of grass, which now because being a part of our bi-laws cannot be resended.
How can we get Abbott to focus on power and water?
Thanks for making this video!
you are welcome. Two months in the making
Great video, sir.
I would love to see Landa Park flowing again.
@@stackedpennies4377 thank you. Agree.
water rights in Texas and the entire southwest will determine the future of the area.
Well done!
Several years ago I started landscaping with Texas natives or adaptive plants. 80% of my yard is Texas natives. This fall and winter my plan is to completely remove my remaining grass (with HOA approval) I will add more natives, hardscape and finish everything off with composte mulch.
Future plans are to add 2 rain cisterns for rain harvesting.
@@TheGonebald thank you for input. Is it a new build community or older neighborhood? HOA’s need to get on board with native especially when you consider it helps the ecosystem and saves water. Bermuda and St Augustine are water suckers
@@raadalawanrealtorit’s an older neighborhood Dove Crossing. We’ve lived here 20 years.
@@TheGonebald by Fischer Park
@@raadalawanrealtor yes
Smart electronic water meter is not even being used. If every home had an access to it through the NBU app so a user can see in real time their usage then people as a whole can maintain healthier levels. In addition to this each subdivision needs to consult a professional landscape architect on designs and plants that can be used for zero scape. The city keeps approving new homes to be built with lawns. Not to be negative but I simply think NB needs to own its poor management of these things.
All new builds should be required to only use native plants for landscaping. That goes for the public areas and when they are installing grass on the lots for sale. What the new owners do after buying is up to them. The house should come with native landscaping and information on how to maintain it and what there is.
I've been wondering about water... are they building more than they should? Are we going to end up with no water in the next 5 years? 😂
@@perigosu8449 it’s growth related.
Yes. Go ask anyone in Llano about the water problems.
Beautiful natural areas such as Jacob's well near Wimberly Texas are drying up due to excessive pumping from "utility providers" that sell the water.
Impervious cover. Pour more slabs, pour more strip malls, pour more parking lots. = Less water
Stormwater waste is correct @rebajason1460 It's much bigger than people's yards. We need permeable building materials to slowdown or stop the stormwater runoff.
Quit building
It’s always amazing
The greed wants more construction
And then when the natural resources say no more
You take it to the news
Just amazing
NBU should maybe invest and build a desalination plant somewhere along the coast and pipe that water this way. I've lived in the NB-Comal County area for 31 years and all I can say is that things may get a little worse before they start to get better...
City run utility is now up to 8 water sources, and says it has 3 times the amount we use every year
Close all the golf courses!!!!!!!!!
@@timbrummer7401 I think it’s how fast people can adapt. The better homes and gardens lush green grass full on isn’t financially sustainable here for any homeowner
This great information. See what my HOA says. Great path to start.
let us know
Can we just not let anyone else move here? lol
Plant more trees.tree produce 30% more rain truth
Pray for rain to God in heaven
we need it to rain for 40 days and 40 nights.
The developers have way overbuilt with track houses and apartments. We can’t support them with water, roads, schools, law enforcement and other infrastructure. We should retroactively tax the developers.
@@jasonlovell3934 new developments ARE paying a lot more in impact fees
Development can be slowed by responsible regulation but must be accompanied by long-term, big picture planning.
1. Yes, of course, require development to use native flora
2. Also, require builders to build new homes with a grey water reclamation system
3. Limit what can be pulled out of the aquifer
4. Desalination plants for each city to reclaim its waste water
5. Desalination plants on the coast to be pumped upland
6. Nuclear and or more solar and wind generation. Future energy needs will be fabulously greater than they are now. But as long as we have accessible cheap energy water will not be a problem.
Numbers 4-6 are expensive but will be cheap in the long run.
70% of the peak season water bill is due to watering yards.
@@pointnemo369 there’s a higher rate for irrigation yes
@@raadalawanrealtor correct.
People are talking nonsense saying they’ve never had this problem but the science shows the drought was worse in the 1960s. This is 100% about everyone pulling from the aquifer!
They really need to limit development to 6 acre homesteads to a min plus no fancy lawns to eat up water.
They need to stop permits for homes, not that we don't want them, it's that we don't have enough water.
1) I am interested in how much volume if any have we sold in water rights to other users? Canyon lake has several HUGE pipes coming out of it getting sucked out like a straw every minute of everyday 2) Why are housing projects continue to be approved if the math isn't working out? We all are going to lose so we can have population/tax base growth but we will all have to leave in years to come due to it. So what's the purpose of continuing to grow the population if we all are going to pay a detrimental price? You cant provide what you dont have..stop approving housing projects. Let them go to other areas of the state that can support growth. Need to look into desalination plant and pump it back up to areas who are in drought like us in this state.
Those huge pipes are sending millions of gallons per day to San Antonio. Google "SAWS Canyon Lake".
Most of the water pumped from canyon lake is shipped to bulverde, San Antonio and Boerne.
Good,what was once a nice little town has turned into a sewer.
30 years ago my father in law said don’t buy a home anywhere near canyon lake because there isn’t enough water. So I didn’t. Fast forward 25 years, he must have forgotten what he said. They built a beautiful 3k square foot house in Spring Branch. The last couple of years the entire neighborhood has had a water truck filling the multi thousand gallon tanks in everyone’s front yard. I see this happening from Austin south. Too much growth for the environment. This land can only sustain so much. We will be the next California in many ways. Pretty soon we will all be drinking sewage water in south central Texas.
I live in Bulverde and we own a well. No water issues currently but we drilled deep.
The fact that this conversation is missing the root cause. Geoengineering. Geoengineering has been the cause for central Texas being robbed of over 60 inches of rain in the last 4 years. It's disgusting.
Please explain
It’s man made weather modification. Purposely drying us up while flooding or burning other areas.
Do you mean cross basin water sharing? Please elaborate
@@wesbaker39 US Air Force has modified planes that spray chemicals in the sky. Depending on the concoction used (silver iodide, barium, aluminum oxide, etc) you can either form rain clouds or dissipate them. RFK Jr has stated he will end this illegal activity when he begins work under Trump's administration.
Drought my Aunt Fannie. To many people. It's not just about yards. Stop building.
Some places aren't meant to have that much water used.
@@AVToth NB had a deep drought from 2011-2015 followed by a few months of rain. That was BEFORE the pop in population
@@raadalawanrealtor That's just Texas. Texas it isn't drought, you're wondering when the next will be. I remember walking along the Cibolo, Kendall Co, Upper Cibolo Road. Starting at the 711 ranch and wading all the way down to my Aunt & Uncles ranch. The springs just bubbled up between your toes. People yammer on about climate change and then move their corporation, business & people to one of the hottest states. There were supposed to be buildinng restrictions over the recharge zone. In Boerne, places zoned as flood plane, and with good reason, now have houses all over them. My great great grandfather; built the the first Kendall Co Jail, helped design and build the courthouse. They city is planning to put a road yards from his home, still there, and will take the place I grew up and my vson & family live. The house my father was born was given an historical designation. Most of the familys that settled here before Kendall county existed, before the state or Republic existed, when it was Northern Mexico, who's homesteads remain, were acknowledged. For all the good it did. The marker is gone, it sits empty and rotting in the new Regency Park subdivision. I stood on my Großmutter's front porch and looked at the only other thing left. I'm sure the people think it just an old barbeque pit. I started to stop and tell them it's where the rectangular molasses pan sat, cooking off the juice from the cane we grew every summer. Waste of time. They probably don't even know what molasses is.
Building over the recharge zone has been discussed throughout the hill country for 30 years. But the developers keep coming. The babbling of the brook has been replaced by cha ching.
Here in Comal County, we have been on 6 hours a month maximum watering for years. The cities have the tax base and political clout to keep buying up the water rights. We have been on total outdoor watering blackout (stage 4) since july 9th. The Texas Water Company doesn't seem to have much interest in developing new water sources. Now they have slapped us with a surcharge to pay for the infratructure upgrades (not new sources) needed for all the growth along tx 46. It's a mess. We recycle 100% of our water into irrigation, but that only supports about 5,000 square feet of sod. New homes should have mandatory limits on sod, say no more sod than the finished square feet of the home. Mandatory onsite water reclaimation for lot sizes over quarter acre. Large developments are already reclaiming water and using it in common areas, vintage oaks and johnson ranch both do this, that is a good start.
@@westerncowhand7814 we heard about stage four a couple months ago. Why not just go all native? Is that an HOA thing?
@raadalawanrealtor I have had natives die off over the last couple of years, too. We have focused on more drought tollerant plants, moving to cactuses, ect. -not to mention the cost and time required of doing so. But that doesn't make one feel better when you drive into NB or SA and they are watering their green lawns, meanwhile I am banned from topping off my pool and washing my car (or using water at all) outside.
@@westerncowhand7814 right that's stage 4. You have a water provider with either less capacity for less purchasing power. What do you mean the natives died off? You watered them quite a bit at first so they get rooted, right? Green grass is pretty. It's traditional. But it's not the complete answer. Bermuda and St. Augustine both suck water big time. Then what? If you're in NB covered by NBU, you're watering your grass once a week because of stage 2 restriction. You can water it by hand every day, but only by irrigation once a week. This isn't Michigan where you have 5 great lakes. It's not the lack of water, it's the growth. The growth creates the tight supply of water. Do you think that NBU would have 8 different sources of water in its portfolio if it didn't double its population in 14 years? Of course, not. Growth creates scarcity, as demand in buyers market four years ago created scarcity of homes.
@raadalawanrealtor I don't disagree. Are we headed to a world where the cities own all the water rights and the country has very few or none? That's what happened in California, I don't think we should go that route.
1 day a week watering is soft. We could easily use 18,000 gallons a month watering one day a week. That would represent at least 3x water use increase for us.
D4 Exceptional Drought over the last coupke of years, at times, especially in West Comal county has been killing established native plants like live oaks and cedars. If you drive out towards spring branch you can see the dead standing trees in the pastures, many of which died last year. It is what it is it's weather. Garden plants like lantanas, Sylvia's and such would not survive in my yard without some watering. We invested in a drip conversion system to improve efficiency and reduce water waste.
I just think we should be careful giving or selling our water rights away here in the country.
I'm on 12.5 acres and own the water. I would just use native grasses. I use drip irrigation on my farm so the water use is highly efficient.
Texas was 11 million people in 1990s now over 30 million.
I am a firm believer in letting the native plants thrive! Trying to keep that other grass green is wasteful and stupid and serves No purpose! I let my yard go native and feed it and fertilize it to keep down the weeds and keep it healthy and it looks great all year with nothing more than mowing
Huh are they frilling for "natural gas "there?
Mostly because you rely on yards and HOAs. Plant more trees and keep the yards natural to local environments. You want to stop using so much water then stop making us have to keep grass up that serves no purpose.
@@ryanrobinson4242 💯
Ban all the golf courses!!!!!!!!!
@@cyclops5624 ALL? There’s one
seriously doubt a single drop of that water makes it to the gulf.
Artificial grass is a good solution!!!
@@normaharrington6246 is it?
Yes, looks great year round. No water need. I have it in my front yard and backyard. Multiple neighbors have done the same.
No, it’s not. It attracts no wildlife, it lets plastic chemicals seep into the ground. It looks ugly. You’re just lazy.
Deep rooted prairie grass is what opens up the ground to infiltrate water into the aquifer, installing fake grass on top of soil is basically turning it into concrete..
The biggest waste of fresh water is using it to flush a toilet.
That is so not true
Yeah so let’s move in more high rise apartments!
home prices should drop.
Nope. They sell water from canyon lake. As a German immigrant, I never had this problem any years. Low, but manageable. Crime and growth!!!!!!! I sold my ranch off 46. It's now becoming a huge neighborhood. They blasted the rocks, sold them, wild life had to relocate. Water temperature is down. Edwards Aquifer County is the biggest Aquifer in Texas. Piping and selling water for profit is pretty stupid. Aqua Texas corporation was fined for pumping millions of gallons over allowance. I don't recall them paying nothing. Explain, if you can! Call this old grey haired man a lier. Us land owners are selling and relocating to screw y'all. Developments received permits, they'll bite you in the butt. All businesses on river road like Koozies is also selling all locations.
Enjoy what y'all did.
BTW, nothing like interviewing uneducated folks who don't know development politics. Was it worth those kickbacks????
Stop giving permits. Only enough jobs , water , and food.
Y'all probably got less than 5 years! Look at Frío, same thing.
Third generation German immigrant rancher! This is the definition of raping the land for unwanted growth and crime. Good luck!
Quit allowing new building if you cant thrive.
Too many users. Ive been saying it for years. We are full! Thanks for ruining my texas with the crazy explosion of development. Hay fileds over house fields. 😅
hay fields, gotta talk to the farmers who sold out and why they did. It's their decision.
@@raadalawanrealtor thanks for the obvious. Preciate cha.
It was the farmers kids who sold most likely.
@@imagoodlistener2730 maybe maybe not. Sometimes it farmers not willing to take loses anymore with drought. And some farmers choose their buyers. Some don’t want to sell to residential developers
Order water…. Weather modification programs.., stop crying and educate yourself, and then take action.
I’m tired of hearing about this type of bs
FEAR FEAR FEAR!! STOKE THAT FEAR!
Stop building on aquifer recharge zones.