Naked City
A Regional Aquifer Alliance
By Amy Smith, Fri., March 7, 2003
The GEAA -- made up of the Alamo Sierra Club, Austin Sierra Club, San Marcos River Foundation, SOS Alliance, Smart Growth San Antonio, Texas Public Interest Research Group, and Wimberley Valley Watershed Association -- is the first organized effort of its kind involving existing environmental groups. On a larger scale, similar regional planning efforts have been initiated by Envision Central Texas and by a working group led by Austin Council Member Daryl Slusher and Hays Co. Judge Jim Powers.
"Our formation was not in response or a reaction to [Slusher and Powers' group]," said SOS spokesman Colin Clark. "It stems from the realization that we can't save the Edwards Aquifer by ourselves."
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