Bill Text: TX HCR43 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Directing the Texas Water Development Board and the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality to support the creation of a model water recycling project.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-04-27 - Left pending in committee [HCR43 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HCR43-Introduced.html
| 85R1557 KSM-F | ||
| By: Davis of Dallas | H.C.R. No. 43 | |
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| WHEREAS, Among the most urgent issues facing Texas is | ||
| recurrent prolonged drought that results in a diminished water | ||
| supply, and new strategies need to be developed and implemented to | ||
| ensure that Texas can meet its future water demands; and | ||
| WHEREAS, Purifying and recycling treated effluent has been a | ||
| successful approach for providing additional clean, safe drinking | ||
| water supplies; Big Spring has implemented such a project, and | ||
| others are planned for El Paso and San Angelo, as well as for the | ||
| Laguna Madre Water District; and | ||
| WHEREAS, Of the 16 water planning districts in Texas, Region | ||
| C, which includes the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex and serves more | ||
| than 25 percent of the state's population, has one of the largest | ||
| projected demands for new water supplies, and several cities in the | ||
| region have the ability to develop a model project that would purify | ||
| and recycle significant amounts of treated effluent into water for | ||
| drinking and other household uses; and | ||
| WHEREAS, An advanced purification plant could provide a | ||
| crucial new supply of water to a number of water planning regions in | ||
| Texas; and | ||
| WHEREAS, The development of a direct potable-water model | ||
| project in conjunction with the use of renewable energy | ||
| technologies could provide an excellent opportunity for public | ||
| education on direct water reuse and renewable energy; and | ||
| WHEREAS, The creation of a direct potable-water project in | ||
| Region C has the potential to yield a sufficient water supply to | ||
| area residents while alleviating the depletion of already scarce | ||
| resources, and the Texas Water Development Board and the Texas | ||
| Commission on Environmental Quality should provide funding, | ||
| authorizations, and technical assistance to aid in that endeavor; | ||
| now, therefore, be it | ||
| RESOLVED, That the 85th Legislature of the State of Texas | ||
| hereby direct the Texas Water Development Board and the Texas | ||
| Commission on Environmental Quality to assist the Region C Water | ||
| Planning Group in the creation of a large-scale direct | ||
| potable-water recycling and reuse project as a model for the state; | ||
| and, be it further | ||
| RESOLVED, That the board and the commission seek federal | ||
| funds or use available state funds or loan programs to assist with | ||
| the creation of a direct potable-water recycling facility in Region | ||
| C; and, be it further | ||
| RESOLVED, That the board and the commission encourage the use | ||
| of renewable energy sources and the development of educational | ||
| programs along with the potable-water recycling and reuse project; | ||
| and, be it further | ||
| RESOLVED, That the board include the creation of a direct | ||
| potable-water recycling facility in Region C as a priority for | ||
| support pursuant to Section 16.1311, Water Code; and, be it further | ||
| RESOLVED, That the Texas secretary of state forward official | ||
| copies of this resolution to the chair and the executive | ||
| administrator of the Texas Water Development Board and to the chair | ||
| and the executive director of the Texas Commission on Environmental | ||
| Quality. | ||
