Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 6904.155: SOURCES FOR WATER; ACQUISITION OF LAND; STORAGE CAPACITY.

(a) The district may acquire, construct, or develop inside or outside the district sources for water, including reservoirs or wells, and any work, plant, transmission line, or other facility necessary or useful to develop, divert, impound, store, drill for, pump, treat, or transport water, including underground water, to the City of Hillsboro and others for municipal, domestic, industrial, mining, oil flooding, or any other useful purpose.

(b) The district may acquire land, or an interest in land, inside or outside the district for any work, plant, or other facility necessary or useful to divert, impound, store, drill for, pump, treat, or transport water for municipal, domestic, industrial, mining, oil flooding, or any other useful purpose.

(c) The district may lease, purchase, or otherwise acquire rights in and to storage and storage capacity in any reservoir constructed or to be constructed by any person or from the United States.

Added by Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 920 (H.B. 3166), Sec. 1.06, eff. April 1, 2009.