Vol 2, Issue 2

A dispute in a South Texas border town that could keep hundreds of children out of school on Monday illustrates the struggles that small border communities face in upgrading long-neglected water and sewer systems. 

There are an estimated 880 trillion gallons of brackish water underneath the state's surface. But using the salty resource can be tricky: Treating it carries a hefty price tag, and the oversight of its withdrawal isn't clear-cut.

The Edwards Aquifer pool, the source of most of the water for the city of San Antonio, marked an inauspicious low for the beginning of the year. 

The Colorado River, which winds its way from the Rockies through seven states, is dwindling, along with the reservoirs that it supplies.

Researchers from Rice University have discovered antibiotic-resistant "superbugs" that manage to survive wastewater treatment in northern China.

A new study examines the long-term economic impact of managing declining groundwater resources in the state's Panhandle region.

The regional premiere of the film Watershed: Exploring a New Water Ethic for a New West, the story of threats to the Colorado River produced and narrated by Robert Redford, will take place on Wednesday in Austin.

The 2014 North Texas Water Summit, a conference focusing on how North Texas will meet its future water needs, will be held at the Dallas/Fort Worth Airport Marriott on Jan. 31

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