Don’t you hate waiting? In our pursuit of a permit to land-apply cleaned produced water in Texas, we find ourselves waiting. Maybe that’s just how it is. Things take time. So, we wait.
Is the delay because the agency doesn't know what to do with something new? Is it because they're short-staffed and things just sit on desks? Is it a political agenda where the energy industry wants control of the water? Hard to say.
Meanwhile, our cotton farmer partner is pulling in less cotton of less quality because there’s a drought in West Texas.
The bureaucratic wheels which turn slowly haven’t thought about cotton or droughts today. A drought to them just means they don’t have to carry an umbrella.
For ag, it’s a mater of making it or not, losing the farm or not. And if we could take the billions of gallons from produced water and clean it and land apply, our friend the cotton farmer could also only worry about carrying an umbrella or not.
But, instead, we wait.