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17. Surprisingly water supply is neither a liberal/conservative thing

Fri Nov 23, 2018, 11:48 PM

Nov 2018

It was conservatives who used the Endangered Species Act to get water conservation to the Edwards Aquifer.

San Antonio was using Edwards water and the state wouldn't do anything, so they found a little fish that had gone extinct from a spring. (Comal River Fountain Darter). The level of the Comal Springs is now regulated by the federal government. Comal River Fountain Darters have been reintroduced by with related specie: San Marcos River Fountain Darter.

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