The time of death for the controversial plan to build a $250-million water pipeline from Uvalde to San Antonio was a little after 11 a.m. last Friday. That's when SAWS emailed a news release naming four finalists for a huge long-term water supply contract. Southwest Texas Water Resources, which has been struggling to make its case for Uvalde water since 2008, wasn't on the list – and without SAWS as a customer, the project doesn't work.
STWR's plan was the latest, best-funded, and best-argued case for making water from Uvalde's western pool of the Edwards Aquifer available to San Antonio. In retrospect, however, it's surprising that the project's collapse took this long.
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