Mesa Water was formed in 1999 by a group of over 100 landowners, led by Boone Pickens, to find a market for surplus groundwater contained in the Ogallala Aquifer under the far northeastern Texas Panhandle. Today, Mesa Water is prepared to sell 320,000 acre-feet of aquifer water per year to regions that desperately need it. In April 2005 the Region C planning group, responsible for water planning for much of North Texas, added the Mesa Water project to its list of alternative supply sources. Mesa Water is also listed as a possible supply source for North Texas Municipal Water District (NTMWD), Dallas Water Utilities (DWU), Region L and San Antonio Water System (SAWS).

Mesa Water can have a tremendous impact on the State’s water supply, diversity and availability. To put it in perspective, 320,000 acre-feet of water would satisfy the annual water needs of over 1.5 million Texans – that means a lot in fast growing regions like North Central Texas or San Antonio.

Mesa Water is one of the various businesses owned by Mr. Pickens. He is the chairman and CEO of BP Capital, which operates energy focused commodity and equity funds. He is also the largest shareholder in Clean Energy, the largest provider of vehicular natural gas (CNG and LNG) in North America with a broad customer base in the refuse, transit, shuttle, taxi, police, intrastate and interstate trucking, airport and municipal fleet markets.