Water Justice Solidarity Action

Residents from Burleson County will be joining forces with San Antonio residents to raise our collective voices against the injustice that is the Vista Ridge pipeline and the various negative environmental and economic effects. This is also an interfaith event where religious and spiritual leaders will be standing in solidarity against this pipeline. We will meet for an action and press conference at NOON on Tuesday Nov. 10. Bring signs, drums, yourself and friends and family!

Also join us before hand at 11:30 AM for a potluck 🙂

The Vista Ridge Pipeline is an over $3 BILLION project that plans to take water from the Carrizo Aquifer for the next 30 years. This will affect not only the families that live in Burleson County and the other counties that use the Carrizo as a water source but also low income families and people on a fixed income in San Antonio who will have to pay more money for water in order to support building and maintaining the pipeline. LARGE BUSINESSES WILL PAY LESS and while more water!

While SAWS and the city is saying that we need the extra water for future residents of San Antonio, there are plans to sell the surplus water to a water or other bottling company. Not only are current residents being forced to pay for water for furture residents but we will be paying for a water bottling company to sell the water at a profit.

On November 19, the San Antonio City Council will vote on the SAWS Proposed Rate Structure and 2 rate increases one which will directly pay for Vista Ridge.

Under the SAWS Proposed Rate Structure, an average family of 4 would pay $13.72 more a month for water. This means an additional $164.64 a year. What about households with 5,6,7,8 people? Large businesses will also be getting discounts on water and do not have incentives to conserve water.

The rate increases will increase rates 7.5% next year (2016) and over 40% over the next 5 years on top of increased rates with the rate structure. Rate increases on top of rate increases will make it very hard for low income, working class and middle classes to pay for water.

Call your city council representative and tell them to vote NO on the new rate structure! Click for their number-> https://www.sanantonio.gov/council