Our aquifer is a very important part of our city and our ecosystem as well as our survival. Elyzabeth Earnly a representative for AGUA came to speak to my humanities class at Palo Alto College. She explained exactly what happens in city council meetings about the building of housing divisions and other complexes on aquifer recharge zones. She talked to us about the many different city ordinances that we have that developers must follow. Although we have city ordinances developers are still able to get away with disobeying them because their land is vested also know as “Grandfathering”; which dismisses them from having to follow the ordinances set forth by City Council and many other agencies like the one that Elyzabeth is a part of. She also gave us the names of other organizations that are there to help the city council in enforcing or city ordinances. Her presentation was an eye opener for me and made me realize how important the aquifer is to our city. She also mentioned how important it is that we stick together as citizens of San Antonio to rid our city of these developers that don’t seem to care about our only fresh water source.
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