Our Land, Our Wells, Our Rights
OUR WELLS ARE DYING UP. SPRINGS ARE DISAPPEARING.
We care about protecting our groundwater—for ourselves and future generations—but the system that’s supposed to protect us is not working.
Groundwater districts (districts) were made to protect our water. But the way they do their math and the regulations they live under have contributed to our water levels dropping. It’s doing us harm.
SO,WHAT'S THE PROBLEM?
The districts know that landowners help refill the aquifers. Landowners help collect rainwater, filter it, and return it to the ground. But in the districts math, landowners water contributions are ignored. Landowner’s private excempt wells are only calculated as if they were someone living on a tiny lot in a subdivision!
IT'S IN THE MATH
District math is shorting the landowners' water contributions (who, by law, have a right to a lot more water than a home in a subdivision), by doing this unintentionally, it gives the illusion there is more water available on the books than we really have.
THERE ARE SOLUTIONS
Other groundwater districts give landowners more water allocation for their land water contribution, and this math gives landowners a chance to protect their wells and the community from ground water depletion. This math can help the districts show they don’t have enough water to keep giving it away.
WE NEED OUR DISTRICTS
We’re not against districts — we want to work with them. But we must speak up together now as landowners and ask for better math that represents landowners' water contributions before more wells go dry.
JOIN US AS WE EXPLORE THESE OPTIONS
We are landowners. We are volunteers. We are not an environmental or a politically affiliated group.
“When the well's dry, we know the worth of water.”
Since
1904
For over a hundred years, Texas has operated under the Rule of Capture for groundwater. To address the shortcomings of this law, current groundwater conservation districts (districts) have been tasked with protecting our groundwater resources.
However, for most districts, state and local constraints lead to managing groundwater like an open bank account, allowing excessive withdrawals while overlooking the vital rainwater deposits made by landowners.
Landowners with private wells are typically calculated only 200–500 gallons per day, regardless of their land size—a volume comparable to that of a homeowner on a small lot. Yet, these same landowners are legally permitted to pump 10,000 to 25,000 gallons per day without waste.
While most landowners are conservative in their water use, the significant disparity between district calculations for private wells and the actual amount of water landowners are capturing means districts may be distributing more water than is sustainable.
Despite districts employing their best scientific methods, their calculations are inadvertently shortchanging landowners and our communities.
Our Mission
My Texas Well advocates for a fundamental shift: a fair and transparent water accounting system that recognizes landowners for their water rights. By acknowledging rain deposits, we can protect our wells, our groundwater, and our community. Our children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren deserve a future with flowing springs.
We are nonpartisan—not an environmental or government group, but landowners who understand that the system meant to protect us must change. We will offer short- and long-term, and simple and complex solutions.
We call on all landowners to stand with us. We will provide plain-English explanations of complex policies, ensuring a chance for all to understand.
We are unpaid landowners—everyday people with families and jobs who refuse to live in fear of losing our groundwater and way of life. We have been silent for too long. It’s time to change that.
By land and well owners, United!
Join us—without obligation, without compromising privacy—as we ask hard questions and push for real-world solutions before it’s too late.
