{"id":939,"date":"2013-02-14T21:09:40","date_gmt":"2013-02-15T02:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orangesand.com\/?p=939"},"modified":"2013-02-14T21:09:40","modified_gmt":"2013-02-15T02:09:40","slug":"supreme-court-wading-into-texas-water-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/14\/supreme-court-wading-into-texas-water-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"SUPREME COURT WADING INTO TEXAS WATER ISSUES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U. S. Supreme Court is about to dive into a water rights dispute that could affect 1.7 million North Texas residents, according to the Wall Street Journal.\u00a0 The dispute is between Texas&#8217; Tarrant Regional Water District &amp; Oklahoma.\u00a0 Texas wants to capture water in Oklahoma that flows into the Red River, the border between the 2 states.\u00a0 So far, lower courts have ruled for Oklahoma.\u00a0 In addition, Texas has asked the Supreme Court to consider a separate lawsuit alleging that New Mexico isn&#8217;t giving Texas its allotted share of water from the Rio Grande.\u00a0 No court has ruled on this.\u00a0 Texas is one of the fastest-growing states and will need 8.3 million acre-feet of water by 2060 where population is expected to surpass\u00a0 46 million, up from 25 million now.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U. S. Supreme Court is about to dive into a water rights dispute that could affect 1.7 million North Texas residents, according to the Wall Street Journal.\u00a0 The dispute is between Texas&#8217; Tarrant Regional Water District &amp; Oklahoma.\u00a0 Texas wants to capture water in Oklahoma that flows into the Red River, the border between [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}