Vol 3, Issue 14

Companies run by two billionaires are teaming up to build a 143-mile pipeline to carry natural gas through the Big Bend region and into Mexico.  An unlikely coalition of environmentalists, landowners and others is fighting to thwart the project.

Texas is set to receive another $788 million stemming from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill under a settlement between BP, the federal government and five Gulf Coast states.

A new multimedia story series attempts to alert Texans to the danger of the over-pumping of the state's aquifers.

In this week's Q&A, we interview Tom Pankratz, a Houston-based desalination consultant and editor of the Water Desalination Report.

In this week's Bookshelf, our content partner Kirkus Reviews highlights Life After Lawns.

The Summer 2015 Water Rights Analysis Package Users Group Meeting, which will include discussions on modeling environmental flows and water availability, will be held in Austin on July 24.

With the legislative session now done, the Texas Agriculture Law Blog looks at the agriculture bills that lawmakers considered or passed this session that touched on groundwater and surface water issues.

The victor of the Texas Water Safari, a 260-mile canoe race along the San Marcos and Guadalupe rivers to the Gulf of Mexico, was a team paddling the appropriately named Texas Flood — with a time of 34 hours, 58 minutes.

Conservationists are learning that with the unpredictable shifts in the landscape that come with climate change, restoring ecosystems must also include making them resilient.

The amount of water used in the U.S. for hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, increased by 28 times in the last 14 years, a new report from the U.S. Geological Survey found.

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