North Central Texas needs to almost double its water supply by 2080 to hydrate the millions expected to move to the region in the coming decades, state water planners warned in a 982-page report presented to the public Monday.
The Region C Water Planning Group, the body responsible for supervising aquatic resources in and around the Dallas-Fort Worth region, recommends the area’s major water providers spend billions of dollars constructing new reservoirs and conserving, reusing, and redirecting its existing supplies.
The group’s priciest proposal is also its most embattled: a $7.39 billion, 66,103-acre reservoir 180 miles east of Fort Worth preemptively christened Marvin Nichols…