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Update: October 24, 2025 : We are updating this original LIV article posted in February 2023. LIV is not opposed to all ASR projects, such as San Antonio's ASR. However, Austin's ASR poses particular threats to our aquifers. We rely on our water policy leaders for guidance on the complex science of groundwater, especially the Lost Pines Groundwater Conservation District (LPGCD) that represents Lee and Bastrop counties, and two nonprofit organizations: the Simsboro Aquifer Wa

From one of the wonderful Texas water defenders, SAWDF Update 5/9/2023 Legislative News Favorable legislation awaiting a public hearing...

Legislative News Texas House of Representatives HB 5052 – Rep. Stan Gerdes ** Passed ** Filed on behalf of stakeholders in HD 17, HB 5052...

Thankfully, Rep. Gerdes introduced HB4445 to address massive water leakage throughout the state. Click on Nancy McKee's picture for a...

The Elephant in the Room! Let's help Rep. Gerdes get a hearing on HB 4445, arguably the most important water bill in this session! We...

SAWDF Update • 4/13/2023 Favorable Bills making progress House Natural Resources Committee [HNRC] SB 1080 – Kolkhorst Relating to a...

Let LIV un-confuse you. Join us next Monday night's, March 13, at 7 pm for our forum "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Bills" in this...

LIV does not endorse any political party. We work with members of all of them. But, like most Texans of all persuasions, we do want more...

In this edition: Mark Cuban Bullish on Ending Duopoly. Go here. Chapter 313 subsidies to clear-cut forest in Bastrop for solar farm?! Go...

The Republican establishment, and every lobbyist this side of the Pecos to DC and New York City, targeted Bastrop County Judge Paul Pape...

Independents call former Governor Rick Perry "Governor 39%". That was Perry's reelection percentage in 2006 when two independents --...