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First, Rural/Urban Resources is not a water district. It is a voluntary association of landowners who are "pooling" our surplus groundwater for development and sale to the highest bidder.
It can and should be viewed as an association or a chamber of commerce, or an area economic development effort, with a single objective: To protect the landowner's underground water rights from state control, and make some money while doing so.
Basically, Rural/Urban Resources offer an “arms length” way for a landowner to protect his/her groundwater, by separating it from the land, much like oil, gas and other minerals (water is not a mineral). The Leases show the owner’s use of their groundwater; developing it as a separate asset for the owner's use and benefit, while performing a true public service for an actual public benefit.
The Leases also are a way to make sure the ones who want our water, pay for it!
The company was formed for three (3) basic purposes:
(1) To be a viable way for Northeast Texas landowners to voluntarily “pool” — communitize — their individual interest in and ownership of the groundwater beneath the surface of the land they own for the development and sale of such water.
(2) For drilling for, producing, storing and owning groundwater; constructing and operating wells and waterworks; storing and transporting water; laying water gathering and transportation pipelines and establishing pumping stations, together with the right to sell, trade, swap, barter of such developed water resources and water processing facilities, and with the reasonable right necessary to conduct the foregoing activities within the State of Texas.
(3) To act as an economic and community development resource for our rural region, and as an organizational resource for the urban area; to be an effective community relations vehicle for easing the growing political conflict between rural and urban areas, among state agencies and landowners, and to help answer some of the water resource needs of Texas.
First, Rural/Urban Resources is not a water district. It is a voluntary association of landowners who are "pooling" our surplus groundwater for development and sale to the highest bidder.
It can and should be viewed as an association or a chamber of commerce, or an area economic development effort, with a single objective: To protect the landowner's underground water rights from state control, and make some money while doing so.
Basically, Rural/Urban Resources offer an “arms length” way for a landowner to protect his/her groundwater, by separating it from the land, much like oil, gas and other minerals (water is not a mineral). The Leases show the owner’s use of their groundwater; developing it as a separate asset for the owner's use and benefit, while performing a true public service for an actual public benefit.
The Leases also are a way to make sure the ones who want our water, pay for it!
The company was formed for three (3) basic purposes:
(1) To be a viable way for Northeast Texas landowners to voluntarily “pool” — communitize — their individual interest in and ownership of the groundwater beneath the surface of the land they own for the development and sale of such water.
(2) For drilling for, producing, storing and owning groundwater; constructing and operating wells and waterworks; storing and transporting water; laying water gathering and transportation pipelines and establishing pumping stations, together with the right to sell, trade, swap, barter of such developed water resources and water processing facilities, and with the reasonable right necessary to conduct the foregoing activities within the State of Texas.
(3) To act as an economic and community development resource for our rural region, and as an organizational resource for the urban area; to be an effective community relations vehicle for easing the growing political conflict between rural and urban areas, among state agencies and landowners, and to help answer some of the water resource needs of Texas.