Vol 3, Issue 19

The Texas General Land Office has dropped its lawsuit against the city’s obliterated ban on hydraulic fracturing and moratorium on new gas drilling, officially resolving all litigation over the North Texas city's vote, which made international headlines.  

With the eyes of Nordheim cast upon them, state regulators have granted new life — if just a breath — to the tiny South Texas town’s effort to thwart an oil and gas waste site that locals argue threatens their way of life.

Check out our seven-part series done in partnership with The Texas Tribune and the Beaumont Enterprise on the "Road From Rita."

In this week's Q&A, we interview Navid Saleh, an assistant engineering professor at the University of Texas at Austin.

In this week's Bookshelf, our content partner Kirkus Reviews highlights The Oyster War.

The Texas Desalination Association presents its 3rd Annual Conference, Texas Desal 2015, where the focus is on innovation and reliability.

Some of the nation's "mitigation banks" created by a federal program to preserve wetlands and streams, including a number in Texas, are being exploited for their oil and gas reserves.

A proposal to study the possibility of a statewide water grid that would distribute water across Texas is facing opposition from the Lone Star Chapter of the Sierra Club, the largest environmental group in Texas.

According to the U.S. Drought Monitor, 52 percent of the U.S., including Alaska and Hawaii, is now in some stage of drought.

A Purdue University study revealed that water entering Indiana's Wabash River during the summer is withdrawn and then returned, a finding with implications for other rivers nationwide.

California's Sustainable Groundwater Management Act, the state's new safeguard for its aquifers, is proving difficult to translate into practice with a new regulatory infrastructure.

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