Or having water at all.
San Marcos is on track to run out of water by 2047 if it doesn't take action
San Marcos could run out of water by 2047 if it doesn't act soon, according to the city's utility.
Population projections show the city will have about 303,000 residents by 2070; the city had planned for about half that number.
"So your [water] usage then goes from nearly 19 million gallons a day to over 33 million gallons a day," Tyler Hjorth, director of SMTX Utilities, said in a presentation this week to City Council.
https://www.kut.org/energy-environment/2025-01-24/san-marcos-is-on-track-to-run-out-of-water-by-2047-if-it-doesnt-take-action
These two gems.
One way to address the growing demand is to get more water from the Carrizo-Wilcox Aquifer, Kite said. Another option is to focus on water conservation.
“ What we try to focus on more than anything else is educating folks,” Jan De La Cruz, conservation coordinator for the city, said. “We have a lot of people moving in from out of state and they're not used to water issues; they don't understand or know that there are restrictions.”
De La Cruz said the city occasionally imposes fines on repeat offenders. But one of the city's main education campaigns is showing residents that saving water means saving money.
“The more water people use, the higher their water bills are going to be,” she said. “They go hand in hand.”
I have never seen the water police on my street and plenty of perfect green lawns in August and September. But that is the affluent historical district, so they can afford it. Fuck em.