More time needed to get water rules right
April 27, 2011
Southwest Farm Press - “In each one of our meetings this week, people wanted to know if any economic studies had been done on the impact of the draft,” Gibson said. “We know the district has had economic impact studies done by economists at Texas Tech University and that information should be released to the news media and the public before the district holds its public meetings beginning March 23.”
New water use regulations for a 16-county region of the High Plains are of such monumental importance to the region’s economy that they should not be rushed to a hasty adoption, David Gibson, executive vice president of the Corn Producers Association of Texas, said Friday from the CPAT Lubbock headquarters.
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“In each one of our meetings this week, people wanted to know if any economic studies had been done on the impact of the draft,” Gibson said. “We know the district has had economic impact studies done by economists at Texas Tech University and that information should be released to the news media and the public before the district holds its public meetings beginning March 23.”