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The Future of Texas
StrategicConservation:
5 millionmore residents in last decade
97%privately owned
Worst drought in 50 years
1.4 million acres lost in last decade
We have a problem.
And it isn’t going away.
50% more residents expected by 2050
We cannot meet future water needs
Here’s what could happen
By 2020 we loseanother 1.5 million acres
Our water supply dwindles.
We lose this.
In favor of this.
Not the Texas you imagined for your children, right?
But the good news is:There’s a solution.
Let’s go back. Here’s what we have now:
Acknowledgethe threats
See theopportunities
Make thegreatest impact
Here’s what we can do
In the Trinity Watershed
8 million people40 % of Texas’ water6 million acres
And here’s how we do it
It looks something like this:
Forever.
And it can look this way
Conservation planning starts here and affects Texas
for generations.
250,000 acres of high priority land
equals 250,000 solutions.
The land is changing.
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