The agency overseeing the state's share of the huge Toledo Bend Reservoir in central-western Louisiana is looking again at whether to sell water to private Texas investors — and is facing renewed opposition from people who live alongside or otherwise count on the lake's waters.

Built as a joint project by Texas and Louisiana in the 1960s for hydroelectric power, water supply and recreation, the 186,000-acre reservoir created from damming the Sabine River is the fifth largest manmade lake in the nation, according to agency materials .

Straddling the Louisiana-Texas border, the jagged-edged reservoir has become a boating, fishing and camping spot rimmed with lakeside homes, but also remains an ample source of water in an increasingly water-thirsty world.

The controversy led Gov. Jeff

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