In 2006, there was a major battle being waged to protect the waters of “ground zero”, Kinney and Val Verde Counties, from exploitation by wealthy and powerful water marketers.  As has been the case for over a century, the “rule of capture”, also commonly known as the “right of capture”, continues to be at the core of the Texas water wars.  As a result, Jay J. Johnson-Castro and his brother Tommy Castro, an award winning Blues artist ( www.tommycastro.com ), collaborated on the attached song, “Right of Capture.”  It was first introduced at the Texas Water Congress at Trinity University in San Antonio on September 30, 2006. In the song, Ft. Stockton and Comanche Springs were used as symbols of the disastrous results of the exploitation by water marketers here in Texas.  How ironic that this song applies even more today than it did four years ago, inasmuch as Comanche Springs and the waters of Pecos County are even more threatened and once again the “ground zero” in the Texas water wars.