Groundwater Governance, Management, Regulation, and Emerging Issues in the Lone Star State

摘要

Another way is through tort law: if one landowner pumps a well and drains a neighbor's well, there is no legal recourse, which still applies in Texas. And the other way is through management: the Rule of Capture means that a landowner can drill wherever they want on their property and pump as much as they want regardless of the impacts to neighbors, springs, and streams; however, for 80 percent of the groundwater produced in Texas, this no longer applies.