Hay! I Found Some Water!

     In scanning the Texas Tribune, I came across this article written on February 11th, 2015. Summarily, it's about an unregulated patch of underground water that is essentially up for grabs in Hays County. A large Houston company, wants to pump the water from the ground, and sell it to the rapidly expanding City of Buda. But of course it's never as simple as that. Residents of Hays County, and particularly those who live near where the pumping would occur, are worried that by pumping excessive amounts of water from the aquifer, it will place too heavy a strain on an already burdened water supply.
      While it raises the obvious issue of natural resources, this article also touches on an equally important issue in politics, namely the public interest vs. business profits debate. But until the question of how exactly the pumping will effect the residents of Hays County, the larger, more ideological, debate will go around in conjecture driven circles.