ABSTRACT
In a rich case that illuminates Texas's water controversies, John Folk-Williams takes people through a process that began with deep political rivalries and dueling experts in San Antonio and ended with members of the city council calling the result "a big breakthrough". San Antonio had been deadlocked about water policy for a number of years. The developer community had been very, very strong in setting water policies for some time. The opposition was concerned in part with runaway growth taking investments in major development outside the older part of the city and developing a whole new area of the city on its north side, adjacent to a major interstate route. The agreement was really a very basic one. It was impossible to get specific about which water sources would be used. But this was an agreement, for the first time, to explore all of the various ideas out there.
