Subject: Water Needed In Texas. 
July 27, 2011.

  Two years ago I asked you people to help to make in rain in:
1. Northern Calif. Sierra Mountiains and it has set record of raining and 
filling
up our lakes.
2. Southern Texas around Galveston and Houston where it completely got rid
of the dought.
3. Manila, Phillipeans where it has come some rains that help fill their 
lakes
so they wouldn't have to call for brown-out to conserve power.

  I just got a phone call from my sister and they say they have having a 
dought
that is worse than the dust bowl times.  They are also have some oil wells
drilled in the Meadow, Lubbock area that may make some people rich.  They
say that if they show up in a new airplane then I'll know where it came 
from.

  Now if you will be so kind, as you have in the past, please p-ay or send 
out
positive thoughts that they will recieve enought rain to fill there 
undergound
aquifers, lakes and wells, in Texas.  I know some people will say I didn't 
do the
correcting of the rain in the past but it still happened.

  Here is something about the drought in all of Texas.

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Subject: Worst Drought in More Than a Century Strikes Texas Oil Boom -
Bloomberg
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011
"Drought Threatens Texas Oil Boom "
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photographer_attr>Eddie Seal/Bloomberg
The water crisis in Texas, the biggest oil- and gas-producing state in the
U.S., highlights a continuing debate in North America and Europe over the
impact on water supplies of an oil and gas production technique called
hydraulic fracturing.

Photographer: Eddie Seal/Bloomberg
The worst
http://topics.bloomberg.com/texas/
Texas drought since record-keeping began 116 years ago may crimp an oil
and natural- gas drilling boom as g-vernment officials ration water supplies
crucial to energy exploration.

In the hardest-hit areas, water-management districts are warning residents
and businesses to curtail usage from rivers, lakes and aquifers. The 
shortage is
forcing oil companies to go farther afield to buy water from farmers, 
irrigation
districts and municipalities, said Erasmo Yarrito Jr., the state's overseer 
of
water supplies from the Rio Grande River.
Concern over water usage is especially acute in southern Texas's Eagle Ford
Shale area because drilling there is more water-intensive than other 
regions,
said Robert Mace, a deputy executive administrator of the Texas Water
Development Board.

It's pretty dry down here and a lot of oil companies are looking for water,
Mace said.
The water crisis in Texas, the biggest oil- and gas- producing state in the
U.S., highlights a continuing debate in
http://topics.bloomberg.com/north-america/NorthAmerica and
http://topics.bloomberg.com/europe/
Europe over the impact on water supplies of a production technique called
hydraulic fracturing. Environmental groups are concerned the so-called
fracking method may pose a contamination threat, while farmers in arid
regions like south Texas face growing competition for scarce water.

                                       Fracking-Led Boom

In fracking, drillers shoot high-pressure jets of sand- and chemical-infused
water into the ground to crack rock and release trapped deposits of crude 
oil
and gas. The technique has spurred a new onshore drilling boom from British
Columbia to
http://topics.bloomberg.com/poland/
Poland as prospectors revisit geologic formations previously passed over, 
said
Robert Ineson, senior director of global gas at 
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/quote?tickerIHS:US
http://topics.bloomberg.com/ihs-inc/IHS Inc.
Cambridge Energy Research Associates.
Along the Rio Grande River, where border towns such as Laredo supply workers
and equipment for the drilling boom, most areas have received less than
2 inches
(5 centimeters) of rain since Oct. 1, the
http://topics.bloomberg.com/national-weather-service/
National Weather Service said.
To compensate,
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/quote?tickerXOM:US
"XOM:US"
http://topics.bloomberg.com/exxon-mobil-corp/
Exxon M-bil Corp. (XOM) is recycling fracking fluids to reduce the amount
of water needed for future drilling.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/quote?tickerAPC:US
http://topics.bloomberg.com/anadarko-petroleum-corp/
Anadarko Petroleum Corp. (APC)
is replacing dirt roads leading to its wells with limestone to preserve 
water
that otherwise would be used to keep down the dust.

Farmers, landowners, environmental activists and state oil industry
regulators gathered on June 10 at the University of Texas Health Center
in Laredo to discuss the potential impact of fracking on water, air and 
public
health, one of several such meetings that have been held across the state 
this
year.

                                      13 Million Gallons

The Eagle Ford's peculiar geology means it takes three to four times as much
water to fracture as the Barnett Shale near
http://topics.bloomberg.com/fort-worth/
Fort Worth, said Mace, of the state water board. Fracking a single Eagle 
Ford well
requires as much as 13 million gallons of water, enough to supply the 
cooking,
washing and drinking needs of 240 adults for an entire year, he said.
This is not the drilling your grandparents knew in west Texas, said Sharon
Wilson, an organizer for Earthworks Oil and Gas Accountability Project, 
which
lobbies for tougher go-ernment regulation of oil drillers.
It's a heavy industrial activity with massive amounts of water and 
chemicals.
About 94 percent of Texas was in a state of severe, extreme or exceptional
drought as of June 7, according to the
http://www.drought.unl.edu/dm/DM_state.htm?TX,S" relexternaldensity
U.S. Drought Monitor compiled by the U.S. Agriculture Department and the
National Drought Mitigation Center. The
http://tamunews.tamu.edu/2011/06/07/texas-drought-continues-to-set-records-no-relief-in-sight/
October-through-May period was the state's driest since record-keeping began
in 1895, said Texas State Climatologist John Nielsen-Gammon.

                                                 Waiting For Rain

Municipal water departments, farmers, ranchers and oil drillers near Laredo
are relying on water from two reservoirs and underground aquifers filled by 
last
summer's tropical storm season, said Yarrito, whose job title is 
http://topics.bloomberg.com/rio-grande/"density"sparse
Rio GrandeWatermaster.
Unless storms bring more rain soon, we'll be in trouble, said Sonny 
Hinojosa,
general manager of Hidalgo Irrigation District No. 2 in
http://topics.bloomberg.com/san-juan/
San Juan, Texas.
The drought has decimated crops, with about 79 percent of the state's
winter wheat, 72 percent of its oats and 36 percent of its corn classified
as poor or very poor as of June 6, according to the Agriculture Department
in
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Washington.
The Edwards Aquifer Authority, which oversees underground water supplies
around
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SanAntonio and along the northern edge of the Eagle Ford Shale, on June 2
declared a Stage 2 emergency requiring a 30 percent cut in water usage.
Other water districts have imposed similar restrictions.

                                         No Relief Coming

There's no relief in sight, according to today's forecast from the National
Weather Service. Temperatures across southern Texas will reach 108
degrees Fahrenheit (42 degrees Celsius) June 15 through June 19 and
precipitation will remain below- normal through June 27.
Water consumption by Eagle Ford Shale drillers is forecast to explode
during the next 25 years, Mace said. A study to be released later this
summer by the Texas Water Development Board and the University of
Texas's Bureau of Economic. Geology estimates fracking-water demand
in the area will jump 10-fold by 2020, and double again by 2030, he said.
Since
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/quote?tickerHK:US"
"HK:US"
http://topics.bloomberg.com/petrohawk-energy-corp/
Petr-hawk Energy Corp. (HK) drilled the first discovery in the Eagle Ford
Shale in 2008, oil explorers have sought to gain footholds in the 20,000
square-mile (51,800 square-kilometer) formation. E-xon spent $34.9
billion last year to buy XTO Energy Inc. to capture fracking expertise
and U.S. assets including Eagle Ford leases.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/quote?tickerMRO:US
"MRO:US"
http://topics.bloomberg.com/marathon-oil-corp/
Marathon Oil Corp.
(MRO) agreed on June 1 to pay KKR & Co.-backed Hilcorp Resources
Holding LP $3.5 billion for assets in the area.

                                            Buying Water

Anadarko and Houston-based
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/quote?tickerSFY:US
"SFY:US"
http://topics.bloomberg.com/swift-energy-co/
Swift Energy Co. (SFY) are among the companies buying water for fracking
from Hidalgo Irrigation District No. 2, which also supplies water to 400,000
acres of sugar cane, cotton, peppers and cantaloupe, Hinojosa said. If rain
doesn't arrive in the next four months to replenish the reservoirs, Hinojosa
said he'll have to reconsider whether to continue selling to the 
http://topics.bloomberg.com/oil-companies/
oil companies.

(JW Of course you know I don't believe in the taking of oil from the Earth
and I believe the energy can be harvested from the atmosphere, but until
that happens I guess I'll have to drive my car using regular gasoline.)

John Winston.  johnfw@mlode.com