A $930 million, 142-mile-long pipeline has further diversified San Antonio’s water portfolio and has decreased the fast-growing city’s reliance on its major water source — the Edwards aquifer — by nearly 20% during the last two years.
The Vista Ridge pipeline draws 50,000 acre feet of water annually — or 16.2 billion gallons — via 18 wells drilled into the Carrizo and Simsboro aquifers, about 90 miles east of Austin in Burleson County.Thanks to that supplemental supply, the amount of water drawn from the Edwards aquifer in 2022 (nearly 147,000 acre feet) dropped to 53% of the city’s total water needs,
