Everyone should understand the tremendous importance and impact of the water wells that are now being drilled in the heart of Hays County.  This issue has made people a lot hotter than Willie Nelson’s Fourth of July Picnic.  But this act deserves this type of heat and concern – it’s a thrust into the heart of our very existence.

Hundreds of residential wells in the Trinity Aquifer are threatened by Houston-based company Electro Purification (EP). This private company has secur...