Vol 2, Issue 12

UPDATED: The Railroad Commission on Thursday sided with Marathon Oil Company’s bid to dismiss a groundwater conservation district’s protest of its application to inject waste into part of South Texas’ Carrizo-Wilcox aquifer.

UPDATED: The Texas Water Development Board's executive director issued a final recommendation Monday that the controversial Marvin Nichols reservoir in northeast Texas remain in the state water plan for now.

In this week's Q&A, we interview Jordan Furnans of INTERA.

In this week's Bookshelf, our content partner Kirkus Reviews highlights The Real Cost of Fracking.

The Texas Water Safari, known as the world's toughest canoe race, begins June 14 and continues for four days and four hours, as the competitors paddle from Spring Lake in San Marcos to Seadrift on the Gulf Coast.

World Oceans Day, a global celebration of our connection to the oceans, is June 8, and activities will be held in Texas on that day and on June 7 and June 14 in different venues.

A webinar on June 25 titled "Keeping Rivers Flowing: Innovative Strategies to Protect and Restore Rivers" will focus on the historic Murray-Darling Basin agreement in Australia, which has lessons for Texas.

Plans by the city of Dallas to create a new water source in northeast Texas by damming the Sulphur River face resistance from environmentalists and from farmers and timber companies that hold much of the land that would be flooded.

North Texas rancher Kenneth Braddock says coping with drought and population growth requires farmers and ranchers to adapt and to rethink traditional practices in order to conserve water.

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