Vol 3, Issue 20

Texas and four other Gulf Coast states have reached a final settlement with BP stemming from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill, the U.S. Department of Justice and states announced Monday.

The discovery of dangerous bacteria in the drinking water of two working-class communities along the Rio Grande set off alarms among state regulators and investigators. Now, it appears that efforts to hold anyone responsible are sputtering to an inconclusive end. 

For decades, residents of El Cenizo and Rio Bravo along the Texas-Mexico border have struggled to obtain safe, reliable drinking water. A new treatment plant was supposed to help, but politics got in the way.

In this week's Q&A, we interview Richard Seline, the executive director and senior advisor at AccelerateH2O.

In this week's Bookshelf, our content partner Kirkus Reviews highlights A River Runs Again.

The Greater New Braunfels Chamber of Commerce presents its second Natural Resources Committee meeting to discuss water management in the area.

A Texas judge has ruled the Middle Pecos Groundwater Conservation District had the "broad" authority to deny issuing a permit to a company to export and sell water to customers in Midland and Odessa.

A new book by researchers at the Meadows Center for Water and the Environment, Texas Riparian Areas, looks at and summarizes characteristics of Texas’ riparian areas — “transitional zones” that link bodies of water.

Progress on the San Antonio water transfer project, known as the Vista Ridge pipeline, has hit a snag as critics continue to raise concerns about its environmental impact and the lack of transparency about the cost of the $3.4 billion project.

A new rainwater harvesting system will help provide safe drinking water to six villages in Rajasthan, India, where more than half of the city's drinking water does not meet the World Health Organization's standards.

Raise the River, a project to restore the Colorado River Delta, has issued its latest video report on the activities by the partnership of six U.S. and Mexican nongovernmental organizations.

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