With water becoming more and more precious in the Hill Country and Texas as a whole, the Boerne City Council is gearing up to implement new incentives and restrictions to help in long-term conservation efforts.
Boerne Utilities Director Mike Mann presented suggestions to the city council made by a water committee formed by the governmental entity which was charged with identifying conservation efforts and investigating longterm water supply opportunities. Mann said future water supplies will be significantly more expensive than the resources currently utilized, so a push for conservation is warranted.
“New water is not going to be cheap,” Mann said. “Where our Canyon Lake water costs were triple what our prior resources cost, we estimate that the next regional water supply that we participate in would cost triple what Canyon Lake water does.”
