Vol 2, Issue 11

More bad news for Gulf Coast-area rice farmers: State regulators on Friday proposed a plan for managing the lower Colorado River basin that would likely deny them water deliveries for years to come. 

Wichita Falls has become the butt of late-night jokes and the subject of shocked headlines over plans to use treated sewer water as drinking water. But the town is hardly the only one to reuse dirty water. 

How much water does the state need in the coming decades? It depends on whom you ask. State water planners say that Texas needs 2.7 trillion more gallons of water a year by 2060. But some water law and planning specialists say that figure is far too high.

In this week's Q&A, we interview Sarah B. Faust of Kemp Smith LLP.

In this week's Bookshelf, our content partner Kirkus Reviews highlights Windfall.

A webinar sponsored by the Sierra Club's Lone Star Chapter, the National Wildlife Federation and the Meadows Center for Water and the Environment will be held May 29.

Sam Meacham, a researcher with the Meadows Center for Water and the Environment at Texas State University, is part of the archaeological dive team exploring the Hoyo Negro site in Mexico's Yucatán.

Hydrogeologists at the University of Texas at Austin have found that the Mississippi River network's natural filtering process is close to full capacity, meaning that the network's ability to filter out nitrates as water passes through sediment along its banks may be inadequate.

A drainage ditch designed during the 1960s to protect Barton Springs from the contaminated runoff from surrounding homes and roads is apparently not functioning adequately, thus threatening Austin's beloved icon.

The U.S. House has passed the Water Resources Reform and Development Act, authorizing 34 water projects around the country, including two major projects in Texas.

An unexpected problem has emerged for sailors training for the 2016 Olympics in Rio's Guanabara Bay: dirty water.

Using data from the Texas Water Development Board's reservoir status tracker, our auto-updating map visualizes the current state of Texas reservoirs.