Vol 3, Issue 21

Nearly a year after the San Antonio City Council unanimously approved what could be the most expensive water project in the region's history, some council members appear to be having doubts. 

A federal appeals court has blocked a major Obama administration clean water rule, handing a victory to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and other states trying to drown it in court.

With developers, water marketers and others gobbling up acreage to secure groundwater rights, the state's highest civil court is set to consider what rights landowners have to protect them from unfettered development of pumping operations on their land.

In this week's Q&A, we interview James Simons, an associate research scientist with the Center for Coastal Studies at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi.

In this week's Bookshelf, our content partner Kirkus Reviews highlights Atmosphere of Hope.

A workshop for landowners in the Hill Country on how to protect their land with a conservation easement agreement will be held in Johnson City on Oct. 23.

The 14th Annual North Central Texas American Water Works Association Seminar takes place in Forth Worth on Oct. 23 with presentations on San Antonio's brackish water program, water conservation and regulatory and legislative updates.

The public is invited to a free screening Oct. 30 of "Lifeguards of Barton Springs” and “The Reflecting Pool” as part of the Living Springs documentary series.

Researchers have invented a material called Sponge that can be used in swimsuits to allow swimmers to clean the waters they swim in.

Plans to pump water from a previously unregulated part of the Trinity Aquifer continue to stir controversy in Hays County, even after legislation brought the aquifer under the control of the Barton Springs/Edwards Aquifer Conservation District.

The heavy floods that devastated South Carolina this month revealed a nationwide water pollution problem: the stormwater that washes pollutants from cities and farmlands into lakes and streams.

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