Texas Special District Local Laws Code - SDLL § 8509.0151. General Water Supply Powers

(1) develop, construct, or purchase a dam or reservoir;

(2) in order to preserve and protect the purity of the waters of the state and of the district and conserve and reclaim those waters for beneficial use by the district's inhabitants, provide any plant, work, facility, or appliance incident to or helpful or necessary to the collection, transportation, processing, disposal, or control of those waters for agricultural, municipal, domestic, oil field flooding, mining, or industrial purposes;

(3) construct or purchase any plant or other facility necessary or useful to:

(4) impound, store, control, and conserve the storm and flood waters and the unappropriated flow waters, including the storm and flood waters and unappropriated flow waters of Palo Duro Creek and Horse Creek, by complying with Subchapters A-D, Chapter 11, and Subchapter B, Chapter 12, Water Code;

(5) acquire or construct a dam or any work, plant, or other facility necessary or useful to impound, process, or transport water to a municipality or other entity for municipal, agricultural, domestic, industrial, oil field flooding, or mining purposes; and

(6) develop or purchase additional sources of water, subject to Section 8509.0157.

(1) divert, further impound, or store water;

(2) process the water; or

(3) transport the water to a municipality or other entity for agricultural, municipal, domestic, industrial, oil field flooding, or mining purposes.