Texas has a powerful thirst for water.No surprise there. The Lone Star state has a booming economy. It currently has more than 7000 water systems and the State Water Plan shows that Texans currently use 5.3 million acre-feet of water for municipal purposes, with a projected increase to 8.5 million acre-feet by 2070. Manufacturing uses 1.3 million acre-feet and organizations that self-serve with a...

In 1992 the environmental editor of the Economist Magazine wrote Costing the Earth, The Challenge for Government, The Opportunities for Business. Her principle point was that environmental resources have real value beyond aesthetics. For example, if a wetland is reduced or removed, the function of that wetland has to be replaced: water storage, aquifer recharge, flood mitigation, and much more....