Is Texas Looking in the "Right" Direction?

If you examine a recent poll published in the Texas Tribune, water supply comes in fourth as the most important problem facing Texas.  The first issue is one of those truly wicked problems which will be extremely difficult to solve - part political, cultural, social, economic - all equally ugly to deal with.  The second breaks down to a simple question - - Are the people that design fences and barriers more creative and innovative than the people attempting to get through them?  Who has the greater incentive - barrier builders or barrier busters?  You can spend a $1,000,000 a mile over very long borders into perpetuity and not be very effective or efficient when it comes to solving the problem.  The third issue is documented in the Ten Commandments - - probably the most difficult of the "wicked" problems to solve.

Which gets us to the fourth problem - water supply.  A difficult problem to solve, but not in the wicked category of the first three.  In many respects, it is far more important than the first three.  But the problem with many of the things we need to be focusing on regarding our water problems have very long lead times. You can focus too much energy, time, and money on the first three and run out of time (and money) to fix our water resource problems.

Remember the clock is ticking.