Water for Texas: Do We Have Enough?

Dr. Dan Hardin

Director, Water Resource Planning

Texas Water Development Board

How we plan?

Highlights of theState Water Plan

How many Texans will there be?

Projected Population Growth

How much water will we require? Projected Demand

How much water do we have? Projected Supply

Water Supply Needs

How to Get More Water? Volume from Water Management Strategies

Unique Reservoir Sites

State Water Management Strategies

What will it cost to get enough water?

Total capital costs : $30.98 billion

• Businesses and workers: $9.1 billion in 2010, $98.4 billion in 2060

• Lost local and state taxes: $466 million in 2010, $5.4 billion in 2060

• About 85 percent of the state’s population will not have enough water by 2060 in drought of record

What will it cost if we do nothing?

Highlights of Region C Strategies

• Municipal Conservation and Reuse (over 1 million acre-feet per year by 2050)

• Connection of Existing Surface Water Supplies• Toledo Bend Reservoir• New Major Reservoirs

- Marvin Nichols

- Lake Fastrill- Lower Bois d’Arc - Ralph Hall

• Total Capital Cost of All Recommended Water Management Strategies = $ 13.2 Billion

Highlights of Region H Strategies

Conservation Transfer of Lake Livingston water via Luce

Bayou (up to 1.2 million acre-feet per year) Two new reservoirs:

- Allens Creek- Little River (off-channel)

Brazos River Authority system operations City of Houston wastewater reuse

Total Capital Cost of All Recommended Water Management Strategies = $5.5 Billion

Highlights of Region K Strategies

• Lower Colorado-San Antonio Water System (LCRA-SAWS) Water Project

• New water pipelines to Hays County

• Municipal and agricultural water conservation, wastewater reuse, and desalination (up to 368 thousand acre-feet per year

Total Capital Cost of All Recommended Water Management Strategies = $ 358.17 Million

Highlights of Region L Strategies

• Lower Colorado-San Antonio Water System (LCRA-SAWS) Water Project

• Carrizo-Wilcox Aquifer strategies• Edwards Aquifer strategies• Conservation

• Total Capital Cost of All Recommended Water Management Strategies = $5.2 Billion