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Charles Porter

Former Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly

Sep 24, 2026

10:58
Explain to us kind of the rules on that.
11:00
Texas surface water is owned by the state of Texas, period.
11:04
It's always been that way.
11:05
It's held in trust for the people with the exact same language as the king of Spain had in ancient times.
11:12
It's held in trust for the people.
11:14
It's managed by the TCEQ.
11:16
And over the time of history, it went from uh the board of water engineers on up to the to the water rights commission on up to the tnrcc and all the way to cceq uh we made a decision there's no it any water in a in a water course which is defined in statute by having a source uh it could be intermittent and and a mouth uh and that that that's owned by the state of Texas.

10 MINS LATER

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21:34
Yeah, that's right.

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