Texas lawmakers look into making a statewide water grid, trading market

To better cope with a possible lack of water in the future, the Texas Legislature is poised to order a state agency to examine what would be needed to create a statewide water grid and a market on which it would be traded. Creating any such market would be a long process that would require a fundamental overhaul of the way water is governed, one of the legislative leaders of the project said last week. But it is something the state must start talking about. Read more at The El Paso Times…