As part of our ongoing effort to capture the many dimensions of Texan waterscapes, Ellen Larson, an Austin-area high school student and a Summer 2020 Texas Living Waters volunteer, reflects
By Sapna Mulki, Water Savvy Solutions & Meghan Bock, AIQUEOUS The State Water Implementation Fund for Texas (SWIFT) was passed by the 83rd Texas Legislature and approved by voters via
By Sapna Mulki, Water Savvy Solutions Background: A small public water system located south of Austin, Texas, Creedmoor Maha Water Supply Corporation (CMWSC) serves an estimated population of 7,500 customers
By Nancy Pappas, Managing Director of New Braunfels Utilities’ Headwaters at the Comal The Beginning Remember the Joni Mitchell song “They paved Paradise and put up a parking lot”? Well,
By Anna Huff and Nick Dornak, The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment at Texas State University The small Texas towns of Wimberley and Woodcreek are making big waves
The Galveston Bay Foundation is putting the power to report water pollution back into the community’s hands with a new easy-to-use app called the Galveston Bay Action Network.
This past year, the Houston-Galveston region faced challenges new and old. Here’s how those challenges have impacted the Bay’s health.
These ideas should be taken into consideration when we communicate with the public about flood risk to help them make more informed decisions.
To avoid weather extremes this summer, we need to see a healthy variety of sunny and rainy days this summer. Here’s what we’ve seen so far.
In two years we have transformed a caliche hillside from a barren, lifeless landscape into the most biologically-diverse area of the property.
As you explore Texas’ beautiful waterways, you can minimize your harmful impact with a little help from Leave No Trace guidelines.
One Water promotes the management of all water within a specific geography — drinking water, wastewater, stormwater and greywater — as a single resource.
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The Ike Dike could cost $57 billion over a 20-year period due to inflation and rising costs. That puts a much bigger burden on five coastal counties to raise the nearly $20 billion needed for local cost share, notes our policy specialist @DanielleGoshen.
"To strike oil in America, you need water. Plenty of it."
A fascinating deep dive into how water supplies in Texas are threatened by "monster fracks" that pump aquifers and other vulnerable sources:
A very serious and costly reminder of the importance of maintaining freshwater inflows. They are not just for the health of bay and estuary ecosystems — but for the proper functioning of drinking water systems as well.
"A Rio Grande photo expedition shows the beauty and perils along 470 miles of New Mexico’s prize waterway."
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