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A proposed pipeline would’ve run through taxpayer-funded conservation easements. SAWS...

After pushback from landowners and environmental groups, the San Antonio Water System has ditched a controversial plan to run sewer pipelines through protected land in North Bexar...

❗️CORRECTED: Stage 2 watering rules begin Tuesday, April 20, for SAWS customers. ��Watering w/ sprinkler, irrigation system or soaker hose allowed 1x a week between 7-11 a.m. OR p.m. based on last digit of address. ⬇️ Hand watering is allowed any time, any day. For a complete look at Stage 2 watering rules, click here.  Due to a city ordinance, City Manager Erik Walsh in consultation with Robert Puente, President/CEO of SAWS, declared the Stage 2 rules because San Antonio has received less than 40% of normal rainfall since June 2020. According to SAWS, the Edwards Aquifer 10-day...

Editorial: DeBerry needs to sever SAWS contract Express-News Editorial Board FacebookTwitterEmail Trish DeBerry speaks with a voter in October. Now that she has been elected to Bexar County Commissioner’s Court, DeBerry needs to sever her public contracts. How can she credibly question SAWS if her PR firm has a contract with the utility?Tom Reel /Staff photographer We can’t help but wonder how Trish DeBerry, the public relations whiz, would advise a client — say, a prominent and outspoken new county commissioner — about the merits of holding a contract with another government entity. ...

Skip to main content San Antonio Water System decided not to take some advice 5 years ago: Buy emergency pump generators FacebookTwitterEmail A SAWS crew works on a water main break at 452 Mitchell on Feb. 20 in the aftermath of a week of freezing temperatures.Ronald Cortes /Contributor / Five years ago, an Austin consulting firm assessed the possible harm that disasters, natural and manmade, could inflict on San Antonio. It recommended that the city-owned San Antonio Water System buy generators to back up its pumping stations in case of significant power outages. In a 2015 report commission...