The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled against Texas in a unanimous ruling. The Lone Star State could have received some kind of consolation if just one SCOTUS justice had voted in favor of Texas, but none did. What Texas wanted from the Court was so wrong that even President Obama’s SCOTUS appointees knew it, despite the fact that the Obama Administration favored Texas in this case. Indeed, it was none other than Justice Sonia Sotomayor who wrote the Court’s opinion.

Here is an excerpt from a news story about the SCOTUS ruling:



One would be mistaken to conclude that the Court’s ruling will leave Texans dry. Under the Red River Compact, Texas is entitled to up to 25% of the water in the Red River, which forms much of the border between Texas and Oklahoma, and nobody in Oklahoma is trying to prevent Texas from removing its share of water from the Red River.

However, it isn’t the water in the Red River that Texas officials want. Instead, they want water that is in a river that is completely within Oklahoma.

So, why would Texas officials try to get water that doesn’t belong to Texas?

Answer: Because doing so would save Texas some money.

Any water that Texas obtains has to be treated somehow in order to make it usable for human consumption, and the cost of water treatment is determined in-part by the quality of the water being treated.

Due to a difference in quality, it would be cheaper to treat the water in Oklahoma that Texas wants than to treat the Red River water that belongs to Texas.

Texans are famous for bragging that everything in Texas being bigger. Apparently, they don’t want one of those things to be their water bill.

But we need your water.

We need your soul! Gimme!

So, you admit that the disputed water belongs to Oklahoma.

Isn't Oklahoma a suburb of Texas????

Right On DoDodave thanks for the insight.

That is terrible, esp since Gov Parry is allowing the Owner of NL (National Lead) to mess with your aquafirs in thanks for the money he used to run for president

Nah. Texas is Oklahoma's southern cattle range.

there are large and powerful energy companies in texas right now trying to build a pipeline from the great lakes states to Tx presumably to export natural gas in liquid form but I don;t trust then,
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years ago I was in a drawdown issue up here (Ohio) and learned about the SW greedily eyeing the Great Lakes. If that LNG pipeline gets built they'll have the conduit. Up here we are gonna watch Tx like hawks AND what is flowing in that pipeline

you cannot have the great lakes or the aquifer

there are large and powerful energy companies in texas right now trying to build a pipeline from the great lakes states to Tx presumably to export natural gas in liquid form but I don;t trust then,
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years ago I was in a drawdown issue up here (Ohio) and learned about the SW greedily eyeing the Great Lakes. If that LNG pipeline gets built they'll have the conduit. Up here we are gonna watch Tx like hawks AND what is flowing in that pipeline

you cannot have the great lakes or the aquifer