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Water availability is one of the biggest concerns about the city that we hear from Georgetown residents. If you're not a subscriber to the paper, here are some basic takeaways from the article. Let us know if you have any questions and I'll see if we can ask the city some follow ups to provide answers in the coming weeks:

• Georgetown City Council approved a term sheet for a Water Supply Agreement with Recharge Water LP to provide the city with a long-term groundwater supply starting in 2030.

• Through the agreement, the city will get 34,800 acre-feet of water per year for up to 30 years from the Carizo-Wilcox Aquifer.

• The cost of the water reservation fees will be kept confidential until the agreement is finalized later this year. The paper will report those terms once they're available through public records.

• This agreement will not decrease water rates, but should help make rate increases more predictable and manageable over time, according to the city.

The Williamson County Sun is a locally owned and published newspaper that has printed every week since May 19, 1877. We’re a traditional newspaper, covering hyper-local news, events around town, celebrations, obituaries, new businesses, you name it.

Our reporters still do the majority of their reporting face-to-face, and work out of our office on the Square almost every day. However, as the newspaper enters its 150th year covering news in Georgetown and Williamson County, we’re trying to expand our reach on social media to better engage with the community. We hope that being more active on Reddit and other social media platforms will allow us to connect to more residents, especially the younger families and individuals who continue to move in each day.

We’ll be sharing our articles from time to time to various Reddit communities to help spread important information about what’s going on around Georgetown and Williamson County. But ultimately, we’d like to hear from more residents about both good news happening in town and things that concern them.

If you have a news tip or questions, please call our office at 512-930-4824, or send an email to editor@wilcosun.com. And if you’re not yet a subscriber, you can sign up by calling our office (or visiting our website wilcosun.com, although it only accepts Paypal at the moment). Subscriptions are $59 a year, and we print new editions twice a week (so it’s about 56 cents an edition). I like to think that everyone should be able to find 50 cents-worth of info in each edition, but we’re also open to feedback, and want to provide readers with the best product possible each week.

Thank you all for taking the time to read this. I’d be happy to answer any questions about the newspaper that I can.

Nick Cicale, Williamson County Sun Editor

City of Georgetown pursues 30-year water agreement to meet future demand