McKee, Rhodes, Wier and SAWDF Steal the Show: Could Texas Run Out of Water? Wall Street Is Betting Big On It Documentary

The Lee County water hawks -- Nancy McKee, Bill Rhodes and Andy Wier of SAWDF -- start and finish the film with what happened to Lee, Burleson, Milam, and Bastrop counties' water supply when SAWS -- San Antonio Water System -- came water-grabbing for Vista Ridge.

This documentary by More Perfect Union News -- Could Texas Run Out of Water? Wall Street Is Betting Big On It -- is circulating like wildfire (pardon the phrase) across the nation.

A Texas lobbyist (who shares our pain about the Texas water grabs) jokingly calls the Lee County folks at the table above and their neighbors "the water jihadists." That's because they don't take no for an answer, as they politely and skillfully have demanded the attention of the legislature ever since their beef with SAWS began.

However incremental the changes those citizen lobbyists influenced may be, they're meaningful in a state with vast water resources under siege due to population surges, mass industrialization, captured state agencies, and financial hucksters who know how to pay-to-play the legislature for all it’s worth.

The peaceful, patient, and frustrated McKee, Rhodes, Wier and SAWDF steal the show by reminding us of our civic duty, requiring homework and determination.

It's well worth 19 minutes to grasp that Texas water is in real trouble, and we don't have to roll over and take it.

Meanwhile, what can we do about it? For starters, get educated, get organized with LIV, and make sure you're getting our communications as well as Simsboro Aquifer Water Defense Fund updates.

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