Recently League City government has instituted a stage II of the drought contingency plan which requires that residents reduce their water consumption through a myriad of restrictions. However, I maintain that the recent drought is not the cause of these measures taken by League City to conserve water. League City has grown by 83% in population over the last decade. As the population soared, the amount of water that League City has access to have not kept pace with its growth. Bad management of our water resources has led to daily water usage that comes very close to exceeding our available contracted water supply. The normal demand for water created by the need for irrigation in spring and summer months has pushed League City’s water demand to the limit of our available supply with no relief in sight until demand for irrigation is gone. Without new contracted water supply agreements available to League City, the problem of not enough water will not go away. The key to this issue is the demand for irrigation can no longer be supplied to our residents with the current available water supply.
