Texas Water Company issued a March 2026 moratorium, still in effect, halting water service to nine planned Comal County developments amid supply concerns.
WHY THIS MATTERS · This matters because whoever controls the dams upstream controls the water, food and electricity of everyone downstream — and India's suspension of the Indus Waters Treaty shows river flows are now being used as a weapon between nuclear-armed neighbors.
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"They issued a moratorium in March, which remains in effect today, to nine planned developmentsL Broken Cedar, Redemption, Reserve at Guadalupe Hills, an unnamed development at 6690 Hwy 281, The Rock, Lewis Creek Ranch, Ventana II Expansion, Bracken Tract and Gragg Ranch."
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- Villagers claim the airport would destroy 2,000 acres of fertile farmland yielding three crop cycles yearly, displacing 1,005 households.
- Villagers say the proposed Parandur airport site comprises 27% water bodies that store floodwaters protecting Chennai from flooding.
- The proposed airport would destroy 7km of the Kamban canal, which feeds 84 water bodies used to irrigate regional farmland.
- India placed the Indus Waters Treaty in abeyance following the April 22, 2025 terrorist attack in Pahalgam.
- Floods affected nearly 900,000 people across southern and central Mozambique in early 2026.