Texas wants Oklahoma's water and is going to sue them to get it?

[Horse with no Name]

:wtf: Water is the new oil. Interesting that one state thinks they can sue another state because they won't give them what they want. I feel sorry for Oklahoma. SCOTUS will surely side with Texas.
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/080507dnmetoklawater.28025a2.html
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But the Tarrant water district has gone one step further by suing Oklahoma's water board, alleging that the state's actions, including the moratorium, are invalid and unconstitutional. A hearing is scheduled for September in Oklahoma.

While North Texas has long been interested in Oklahoma's water, observers say the lawsuit marks a more forceful attempt to try to push the issue.

The water war is emotional for many Oklahomans, who fear they could be flushing away their future growth by selling to fast-growing Dallas-Fort Worth. But North Texas officials say both states would benefit from a water sale.
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Mr. Ellis, a Democrat from southeastern Oklahoma, offers this solution to North Texas: "You all come over here and you can have the water you want if you pay taxes, employ our people and build plants.

"Or I'll sell it to you at a bottle at a time.

[napi21]

1. Same thing happens here. Florida sues Ga. all the time for water!

I don't know for sure, but it seems here, there is some kind of written agreement and Fl. is unhappy with the volume of water they're getting.

[Horse with no Name]

2. The difference I think is

That there is an existing agreement with Georgia and Florida.
There isn't one between Texas and Oklahoma.
We are actually suffering in East Texas from the needs of DFW--they want to turn our farmland into lakes.
They are too big and there isn't enough water.
The smart thing would be to quit building...

[RC]

3. Mr Ellis has the correct idea.

Then again why would anyone want to invite rich greedy Texans & politicians to move to Oklahoma? Let Texas keep their problems. The rest of the world has enough problems with them in WDC.

[Horse with no Name]

4. I thought he did too

Oklahoma has the right idea. North Texas is growing very rapidly.
If they run out of water, they won't be able to keep expanding--and chances are, folks would move north to Oklahoma where they have plenty of water. As water becomes the new oil, their resource would be very profitable for expansion in their state.

[Bitwit1234]

5. Virginia sued the state of Maryland and WON

The republican federal court in DC gave Virginia the rights to dump sewage into the Potomac River over Maryland's protest. Maryland owned the river since the early 1700's. And the restrict building along the banks of the river. Smart Growth they call it. But Virginia is building house after house after house in any land they can find on the banks. Overloading the sewer system. They wanted to dump the sewage steam or something like that in the the river. Maryland refused, but after the same old judge that approves everything the republicans ruled on it they could.

[smaug]

6. Proof positive of the criminal nature of all reTHUGlicans

Being from Arkansas, we've had the water battles with Texas also (about 40 years ago - George Fisher had some of his best political cartoons on the subject). Bluntly, Texas needs to stop the development of their north Texas desert, and consider where else development can proceed. Frankly, I'm opposed to much of the development mentality; we need to build homes, yes, and local schools, yes, but unless there are local or regional resources to support development, development should cease.

Injustice is the reTHUGlican feature. We'd call it a fault, but to reTHUGs it is virtue. Wonder what kind of family values (cough Haggard cough) reside in reTHUG households. This dispute (it would be like me suing someone who wouldn't let me tap freely into their water supply simply because mine isn't adequate enough) and the judge agreeing, saying my being able to water my lawn and wash my car whenever I want is more important than my neighbor's right to the water in their land.

:nopity: for north Texas