{"id":14781,"date":"2013-06-21T10:29:42","date_gmt":"2013-06-21T15:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/?p=14781"},"modified":"2013-06-21T10:29:42","modified_gmt":"2013-06-21T15:29:42","slug":"supreme-court-ruling-wont-keep-texas-from-trying-to-buy-oklahoma-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2013\/06\/21\/supreme-court-ruling-wont-keep-texas-from-trying-to-buy-oklahoma-water\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court Ruling Won&#8217;t Keep Texas From Trying to Buy Oklahoma Water"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_13973\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"The OK-TX water dispute centers on the Kiamichi River in near Hugo in southeastern Oklahoma. \" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2013\/04\/kiamichi03.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13973\" alt=\"The OK-TX water dispute centers on the Kiamichi River in near Hugo in southeastern Oklahoma. \" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2013\/04\/kiamichi03-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Joe Wertz \/ StateImpact Oklahoma<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The OK-TX water dispute centered on the Kiamichi River near Hugo in southeastern Oklahoma.<\/p>\n<\/div><p>When the U.S. Supreme Court <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2013\/06\/13\/supreme-court-sides-with-oklahoma-in-tarrant-v-herrman\/\">sided unanimously<\/a> with Oklahoma in the courtroom <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/topic\/tarrant-vs-herrmann\/\">war over water<\/a> that flows into the Red River, Texas\u2019 legal claim to the resource was greatly diminished.<\/p><p>The Tarrant Regional Water District might be down, but it&#8217;s not out, the\u00a0<em>Journal Record<\/em>\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/journalrecord.com\/2013\/06\/20\/msc-whats-next-for-tarrant-capitol\/\">M. Scott Carter reports<\/a>. Thirsty north Texas still wants Oklahoma water and there\u2019s a good chance it will revisit its first strategy: buying it.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230; Tarrant officials have shown they are willing to spend money and time to obtain more water. Even though the water district\u2019s legal bill topped more than $6 million, finding water sources within Texas could prove even more expensive.<\/p><\/blockquote><p>The legal tab is justified, Tarrant officials say, because Oklahoma\u2019s water would have been worth <em>billions<\/em> to rapidly growing and drought-stricken north Texas. The big stakes and Texas-sized wallet is worrying some lawmakers in water-rich southeastern Oklahoma:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230; nothing in the settlement protects Oklahomans from the greed or misguided beliefs of other Oklahomans,\u201d state Rep. Brian Renegar, D-McAlester, said in a statement. \u201cUnfortunately, we have quite a few Oklahoma legislators who are still more than willing to sell our water to Texas. These legislators talk about the vast quantity of water flowing out of our state.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the U.S. Supreme Court sided unanimously with Oklahoma in the courtroom war over water that flows into the Red River, Texas\u2019 legal claim to the resource was greatly diminished.The Tarrant Regional Water District might be down, but it&#8217;s not out, the\u00a0Journal Record\u2019s M. Scott Carter reports. Thirsty north Texas still wants Oklahoma water and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[491],"tags":[423,507,427],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14781"}],"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=14781"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14787,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14781\/revisions\/14787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}