{"id":23987,"date":"2013-02-08T11:31:06","date_gmt":"2013-02-08T17:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/?p=23987"},"modified":"2013-02-08T11:53:42","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T17:53:42","slug":"video-lawmakers-say-get-ready-to-pay-more-for-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2013\/02\/08\/video-lawmakers-say-get-ready-to-pay-more-for-water\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Lawmakers Say Get Ready to Pay More for Water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/P0MoSxdm0-Y?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>As Texas legislators continue to grapple with how to identify and fund water project priorities for the state, Rep. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drewdarby.com\/\">Drew Darby<\/a> (R-San Angelo) makes the argument that Texans don&#8217;t value water enough. His comments came at StateImpact Texas&#8217; panel: <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2013\/01\/29\/water-for-texas-more-than-just-money-needed-lawmakers-say\/\">The Texas Water Crisis: Finding and Funding a Solution<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As a representative of a district that has struggled during the state&#8217;s dry years, Darby said, his region&#8217;s problem wasn&#8217;t as much not having enough reservoirs but that there&#8217;s not enough water in them. The large O.H. Ivie reservoir, which serves San Angelo, a city of nearly 100,000 people, is only <a href=\"http:\/\/waterdatafortexas.org\/reservoirs\/individual\/o-h-ivie\">14 percent full<\/a>. And the other reservoirs the city relies on, like Twin Buttes and O.C. Fisher, are sitting empty.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re\u00a0&#8220;reservoir-rich, but water-poor,&#8221; Darby said. His solution? For one, he says Texans &#8212; especially those living in the very dry parts of the state &#8212; will need to value water higher, and in turn pay more for it. You can watch his remarks in the video above, produced by Filipa Rodrigues of KUT News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Texas legislators continue to grapple with how to identify and fund water project priorities for the state, Rep. Drew Darby (R-San Angelo) makes the argument that Texans don&#8217;t value water enough. His comments came at StateImpact Texas&#8217; panel: The Texas Water Crisis: Finding and Funding a Solution. As a representative of a district that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60],"tags":[61,140,310,85],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23987"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23987"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24008,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23987\/revisions\/24008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}