Texas House Passes Water Conservation Bill
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Texas House has approved legislation that would offer land owners tax breaks for water conservation. It’s an incentive plan little-seen nationwide that comes as many parts of the state are struggling through a punishing drought.
The bipartisan measure offers property tax incentives for those who set aside open-space land for water conversation. The more-productive those conservation efforts are, the greater the tax breaks.
The House passed the measure Saturday. A final reading is expected Monday.
According to a legislative analysis of the measure, 90 percent of Texas water flows through or under private land.
The most-recent U.S. Drought Monitor map shows nearly half of Texas in exceptional drought — and the state just finished its driest seven-month period on record.
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