In Re Adjudication of the Water Rights in the Medina River Watershed of the San Antonio River Basin

SPEARS, Justice.

This is an appeal from an adjudication of the water rights in the Medina River watershed of the San Antonio River. The Texas Water Commission, acting under the Texas Water Rights Adjudication Act, TEX. WATER CODE ANN. §§ 11.301-11.341, determined that O.R. Mitchell was entitled to divert 89.15 acre/feet of water annually from Medio Creek. 1 The Commission then initiated judicial review of that order under TEX. WATER CODE ANN. § 11.317, and Mitchell filed exceptions thereto. TEX. WATER CODE ANN. § 11.318. 2 The district court rendered judgment that Mitchell was entitled to…