Moving water from where it’s plentiful — in sparsely populated southeast Oklahoma — to where it’s needed seems like a logical way to meet everyone’s future water needs.
A smaller version of what’s happening with the drought statewide can be seen in OKC.
Oklahoma City has been pumping water out of southeast Oklahoma along the Atoka pipeline for 50 years.
Oklahoma City’s plan still includes a new pipeline from southeast Oklahoma.
In the more rural parts of Oklahoma City there are thousands of residents who don’t pay for trash pickup, and they never have.
One of the biggest complaints StateImpact has heard from residents in Canton and southeast Oklahoma: Oklahoma City should conserve the water it has before taking it from them.
May’s tornados are still costing Oklahoma City. Every week, new bills for storm cleanup come in. So far, the city has paid contractors more than $1.1 million to haul debris away.
OKC Water Utilities Trust says it’s getting more serious about enforcing conservation measures, and will propose some tough changes at a public hearing on Tuesday.
