Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst says there鈥檚 no choice about funding the state鈥檚 water plan, but he鈥檚 less specific on how much to spend. Yesterday State Sen. Troy Fraser, R-Abilene, supported a proposal to spend $2 billion from the .
Today, Dewhurst told KUT News鈥� political reporting partner that he doesn鈥檛 know how much to invest.
鈥淲e鈥檙e going to provide the funds necessary,鈥� Dewhurst said. 鈥淲e have no other option. The state of Texas will stop. It will stop in its growth unless we provide suitable water resources. There are a lot of things we can do that don鈥檛 cost that much money, like in conservation, like in re-use, things of that nature.鈥�
A released today shows 90 percent of the state in some stage of drought. That鈥檚 better than a year ago, when it was 99 percent, but it鈥檚 actually drier than it was three months ago.
