Comment on “Exploring Groundwater Recoverability in Texas: Maximum Economically Recoverable Storage” by Justin C. Thompson, Charles W. Kreitler, and Michael H. Young

Abstract

Editor-in-Chief's Note: The Texas Water Journal accepted a request by Robert E. Mace, Executive Director and Chief Water Policy Officer at The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment, to share his thoughts on the article, Exploring Groundwater Recoverability in Texas: Maximum Economically Recoverable Storage,” published in the Texas Water Journal (2020) 11(1):152-171, by Justin C. Thompson, Charles W. Kreitler, and Michael H. Young. The opinion expressed in this commentary is the opinion of the individual author and not the opinion of the Texas Water Journal or the Texas Water Resources Institute.

Keywords

• groundwater availability
• groundwater recoverability
• pumping costs
• total estimated recoverable storage
• TERS
• maximum economically recoverable storage