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The West Harris County Regional Water
Authority was created by HB 1842, introduced by Rep.
Callegari and sponsored in the Senate by Sen. Jon
Lindsay. The bill was approved by the 77th Texas
Legislature, signed into law by Governor Perry on May
28, 2001, and immediately went into effect. The City of
Katy consented to the creation of the Authority on May
21, 2001, and the City of Houston consented on June 6,
2001.
The WHCRWA was created to “accomplish the purposes of
Section 59, Article XVI, of the Texas Constitution,
including the acquisition and provision of surface water
and groundwater for residential, commercial, industrial,
agricultural, and other uses, the reduction of
groundwater withdrawals, the conservation, preservation,
protection, recharge, and prevention of waste of
groundwater, and of groundwater reservoirs or their
subdivisions, the control of subsidence caused by
withdrawal of water from those groundwater reservoirs or
their subdivisions, and other public purposes stated in
the act.”
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