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> At the same time, he said, “Bryan can’t claim the water.” Groundwater is a private property right in Texas as sacred as any other. Everyone is allowed to pump whatever their land produces.

This leads me to believe that if someone owns just enough land to access the aquifer, they would be entitled to pump with no limits until it’s depleted?



> so long as they don’t affect other permit holders “unreasonably,”


As it was explained to me in law school, yeah, that's basically how oil rights work.




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