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August 31, 2010
	Whooping Cranes Come First? How the Endangered Species Act Endangers the State Water Supply By Mario Loyola New litigation under the Endangered Species Act endangers traditional state authority over surface water allocations, risks extinguishing existing property rights, and could cut off a vital source of water to communities in central Texas.
February 05, 2010
	Testimony before the House Natural Resources Committee Regarding the Effects of Current and Proposed Federal Initiatives on the State Water Plan By Kathleen Hartnett White Multiple federal initiatives over the last 12 months signal a major departure from longstanding deference to state control of our water supply. Federal interference with Texas decisions about water quantity threaten development of water projects necessary to meet rapidly growing need for water.
February 13, 2009
	Texas Water 101 By Kathleen Hartnett White On February 13, 2009, Kathleen Hartnett White conducted "Texas Water 101," a briefing for legislative staff that provided an independent overview of Regional and State water plans and major water rights issues affecting timely implementation of water supply projects. This document contains her PowerPoint presentation. Click here to listen to her remarks.
January 06, 2009
	Water Supply 2009-2010 Legislators' Guide to the Issues By Kathleen Hartnett White As time passes, Texas faces an ever more urgent challenge to provide sufficient water to meet rapidly growing demand. This is one of the most critical, long-term policy issues facing the Texas Legislature. Policy decisions made—or not made—in the present will impact the future of Texas’ water supply.
December 05, 2008
	Water Rights 2009-2010 Legislators' Guide to the Issues By Kathleen Hartnett White Since the passage of the landmark legislation SB 1 in 1997, river authorities, municipalities, and water utilities have grappled with plans to increase available water supply, urgently needed by our growing population. Legislative clarification of key sections of the Texas Water Code are needed to implement projects to increase water supply.
November 07, 2008
	Groundwater 2009-2010 Legislators' Guide to the Issues By Kathleen Hartnett White Although the Legislature has the authority to limit, or even abrogate, vested property rights in groundwater, it does so with implications of “taking” constitutionally-protected rights for which the state would be liable to compensate the property owners.
March 03, 2005
	Solving the Texas Water Puzzle Market-Based Allocation of Water By Ronald A. Kaiser Texas has reached a crossroads in the management of water resources. While the state’s population continues to grow and the municipal water demand is increasing, Texas’ surface and groundwater supplies are limited or allocated to other uses. The era of cheap and abundant water is over and new ways to provide this critical resource to Texans must be found.
January 13, 2005
	Legislators Guide to the Issues 2005-2006 Water By Texas Public Policy Foundation
October 20, 2004
	Pocket Facts Hold The Salt By Texas Public Policy Foundation Facts and recommendations taken from "Hold The Salt" by James C. Smith, Ph.D.
October 20, 2004
	Hold The Salt The Promise Of Desalination For Texas By James C. Smith Water rights have been bartered, litigated, fought over, bought and sold and are as contentious today as ever. But with improved technologies, one option to mitigate the water problems of the future deserving consideration is desalination – producing drinking water from seawater or brackish groundwater. This report succinctly explores the opportunities and costs of desalination.
August 25, 2004
	Choppy Waters Understanding The Challenges To Texas Water Policy By Katharine Armstrong and Susan Combs and Kathleen Hartnett White A collection of three papers on state water policy, written specifically for the Foundation. The authors include Agriculture Commissioner Susan Combs, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality Chairman Kathleen Hartnett White and Katharine Armstrong, former Chairman of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission. The papers explore the history of the state’s water policy while examining how the market can better meet the ever increasing – and contentious – demands for water.
January 29, 2004
	Water for the 21st Century A Powerpoint presentation By Milton Holloway
June 15, 2001
	Urban Sprawl in Texas Taken from Veritas By Wendell Cox
December 01, 2000
	A Free Market Solution to Groundwater Allocation in Texas A Critical Assessement of the House Natural Resources Committee Interim Report on Groundwater By Clay Landry

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