ABHR enjoys the largest water district practice in Texas. Our clients include municipal utility districts, water control and improvement districts, levee improvement districts, water supply corporations, and other specially created water, wastewater and drainage political subdivisions that collectively serve hundreds of thousands of people throughout Texas. ABHR attorneys have created water districts to finance and operate development infrastructure throughout Texas. We secure approvals from municipalities, negotiate utility services agreements, and perform legal work required for creation of the district.

ABHR has the capabilities to meet the comprehensive legal requirements of the district, including acting as bond counsel in the issuance of tax-exempt bonds, advising on a wide-array of issues including construction law, real property acquisition, open meetings and public information law, contracts and other specialties.

ABHR attorneys have been key participants in the major developments affecting water districts in Texas for the past 30 years, playing particularly important roles in the revisions to the Texas Water Code and other important laws affecting water districts. We also served as primary drafters of the revisions to the administrative rules regulating water districts adopted by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and its predecessor agencies.

Instrumental in the creation and development of the Association of Water Board Directors (AWBD), our attorneys serve on the advisory council of AWBD and have had primary responsibility for legislative matters affecting the AWBD membership