{"id":13883,"date":"2013-04-22T06:15:10","date_gmt":"2013-04-22T11:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/?p=13883"},"modified":"2013-04-22T15:47:22","modified_gmt":"2013-04-22T20:47:22","slug":"why-oklahomas-supreme-court-water-fight-could-have-national-ripple-effects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2013\/04\/22\/why-oklahomas-supreme-court-water-fight-could-have-national-ripple-effects\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Oklahoma&#8217;s Supreme Court Water Fight Could Have National Ripple Effects"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_13884\"  class=\"wp-caption module image center\" style=\"max-width: 620px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"State Sen. Jerry Ellis, D-Valiant, opposes the sale or transfer of Oklahoma water to Texas.\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2013\/04\/jerry-ellis01.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13884\" title=\"Sen. Jerry Ellis\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2013\/04\/jerry-ellis01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2013\/04\/jerry-ellis01.jpg 620w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2013\/04\/jerry-ellis01-500x333.jpg 500w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2013\/04\/jerry-ellis01-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2013\/04\/jerry-ellis01-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Joe Wertz \/ StateImpact<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">State Sen. Jerry Ellis, D-Valiant, opposes the sale or transfer of Oklahoma water to Texas.<\/p>\n<\/div><p>The final battle in the <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/topic\/tarrant-vs-herrmann\/\">Oklahoma-Texas water war<\/a> will be fought Tuesday in the U.S. Supreme Court.<\/p><p>Texas says the <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/tarrant-regional-water-district-v-herrmann\/\">three decades-old Red River Compact<\/a> entitles it to some of Oklahoma\u2019s water resources. Oklahoma says it doesn\u2019t have to let Texas tap its supply.\u00a0The ripples of this regional fight could affect water policy across the entire nation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The final battle in the Oklahoma-Texas water war will be fought Tuesday in the U.S. Supreme Court.Texas says the three decades-old Red River Compact entitles it to some of Oklahoma\u2019s water resources. Oklahoma says it doesn\u2019t have to let Texas tap its supply.\u00a0The ripples of this regional fight could affect water policy across the entire [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":13884,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[491],"tags":[507,427],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13883"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13883"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13888,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13883\/revisions\/13888"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}