Water.

Or maybe a better description would be water rights, but either way you look at it, they are a valuable commodity. When you look at long range plans for any community, any size or any place, you have to look at water.

People need water to drink, manufacturers need water to operate, and whether we want to look at it that way or not, water is a key ingredient to the current and future prosperity of Bowie County and Northeast Texas.

For about 20 years now, the name Marvin Nichols Reservoir has ...