Capital Highlights
by ED STERLING
The Texas Water Development Board on Jan. 5 released the 2012 State Water Plan.
Among its recommendations, the document asks state lawmakers to change laws in order to to lift restrictions on the transfer of surface water from one basin to another.
The plan also calls for the creation of new reservoirs, increased water loss audits and sustainable financing for water projects.
Aerial vaccine drop in progress
On Jan. 2, the Texas Department of State Health Services announced it had begun its annual airdrop of rabies vaccine bait over portions of south and west Texas.
Planes are scheduled to drop some 1.8 million doses of rabies vaccine over the next month.
Since the vaccine program was started in 1995, the number of animal rabies cases has dropped dramatically, the agency reported.
