https://blog.monsterzero.org/categories/water/Recent content in Water on Monster ZeroHugoen-usMon, 20 Jul 2026 10:00:00 -0500https://blog.monsterzero.org/posts/kyle-bass-water/Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:00:00 -0500https://blog.monsterzero.org/posts/kyle-bass-water/<p>Anderson County Judge Carey McKinney found out about it at church. A deacon asked him the Sunday before Memorial Day if he&rsquo;d seen a groundwater permit application published in the local paper. McKinney went home and pulled the week-old newspaper off his kitchen counter. That&rsquo;s how the highest elected official in the county learned that a Dallas hedge fund manager wanted to pump 10 billion gallons of groundwater a year out from under his community, roughly three times what the entire county uses annually, and pipe it somewhere else.</p>