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Save Our Springs Alliance

The mainstream crowd would have us believe that SOS is so yesterday. And then we think back to "yesterday" and recall how this same crowd told us the SOS ordinance would be (in the words of Bush the Elder) baad, baad, for Austin. Well, here we are 10 years after, and the green warriors are still defying the odds. Just recently, SOS enjoyed yet another vindication when U.S. Department of Fish & Wildlife issued a report declaring the Barton Springs watershed to be in a heap of trouble. The agency attributed the degradation of our water to - you guessed it - urban sprawl, not to mention the lack of development enforcement on the part of the Environmental Protection Agency. The F&W report grew out of a settlement of the lawsuit SOS had filed against the two agencies, alleging both at fault for not protecting the Springs. Victories (even the short-lived ones) are nice, but it's all in a day's work for SOS.

Save Our Springs Alliance
221 E. Ninth #300, 512/477-2320
www.sosalliance.org