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Why is Texas using old answers to address future water questions?
Lower Bois d’Arc Creek Reservoir will be the first major reservoir constructed in Texas in more than 20 years. But are reservoirs an outdated approach to meeting Texas’ water supply needs?
Good news: Projected Texas water demands have dropped
This decrease is thanks to water conservation measures such as more efficient water fixtures and appliances, as well as enhancements in energy efficiency.
How to explore waterways responsibly with Leave No Trace
As you explore Texas’ beautiful waterways, you can minimize your harmful impact with a little help from Leave No Trace guidelines.
Urban wildlife and people need healthy creeks and streams, not channelized ditches
Urban stream restoration can unite a community, reduce runoff pollution, mitigate flooding, provide wildlife refuge and help preserve our life-giving creeks.
Texas swimming holes need One Water
One Water promotes the management of all water within a specific geography — drinking water, wastewater, stormwater and greywater — as a single resource.
Livestock management can change watershed health
Livestock management techniques like multi-paddock grazing can help create healthy soil and water – a win for everybody.
Rebuilding Houston: Collaborating to understand Harvey’s impact on Galveston Bay
This Task Force is collaborating to understand the extend of damages from Hurricane Harvey, as well as to figure out what needs to happen next for recovery.
Dolphins after Hurricane Harvey: Evaluating the impacts of water quality changes
Many questions are still unanswered, but early observations suggest the rapid and extensive water quality changes after Harvey had an impact on dolphins.
texas living waters
Texas Living Waters is a collaboration of conservation groups working to ensure Texas has the water it needs for thriving communities and abundant fish and wildlife.
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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."
Nadav Soroker/@SearchlightNM
