What’s going on right under your nose?!


Elizabeth Earnly from Trinity University is an AGUA Association representative. She graced our humanities class with her presence on Friday, October 27, 2007. She spoke about how our representatives in SAWS are letting developers build over the Edwards Aquifer and the recharge zone. This is an outrage because developing over these particular locations can lead to contamination of our drinking water. We has a community should be extremely more active in what is going on with our major source of fresh drinking water. We only have a certain amount of fresh water in our lands and to pollute it would be to pollute our bodies. Contamination would result in no water and therefore no human life. Cities would have to take costly action to provide clean drinking water for civilians. We as tax-payers would find a great bill in our finances. Water costs are going up as it is, but can anyone imagine how high it would be if the city had to filter and alter different sources of water? Elizabeth showed us what goes on during council meetings and how we can be involved. She introduced us to actual reviews of developments by the developer and SAWS. It was an interesting horror to finally be awakened to the ugliness of how our city deals with development over something so vital. How can we still be standing on the sidelines waiting to die of thirst or worse of water contamination? When will we all come together and put a stop to this outrageous notion that development is more important to our city then the health of its constituents?