Vol 2, Issue 15

As state water planners prepare to spend $2 billion in public funds to address Texas’ water needs in the coming decades, scientists say state leaders' skepticism on climate change will only impair such planning.

Several months after San Antonio Water System's bold move to secure ownership of its treated sewer water even after it gets released back into a public waterway, state regulators are saying they doubt that's possible. 

Dow Chemical's struggles to secure enough water supplies for its growing operations in Texas have sparked concerns about whether the state's diminishing natural resources can accommodate its exploding population and economy.

The Rio Grande's future has never been more uncertain. Reporter Colin McDonald and photojournalist Erich Schlegel are traveling the river's length, documenting its culture and its biology from the Rocky Mountains to the Gulf of Mexico.

In this week's Q&A, we interview Karen Ford, managing director at WaterPR.

In this week's Bookshelf, our content partner Kirkus Reviews highlights Blue Mind.

Trainings for professionals in water irrigation will be held in College Station and Dallas by Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service irrigation specialists in July and August.

Texas does not fare well in a new report by the group Environment America Research and Policy Center that ranks the states that are polluting U.S. waterways the most.

According to a study by UT hydrology professor David R. Maidment, last year's devastating Onion Creek flood, known as the Halloween flood, was not a unique event and could occur again, within a projected range of 15 to 50 years.

Loving County has completed a solar-powered desalination unit designed to produce drinking water from brackish water, including water used in hydraulic fracturing.

A study by the Center for Watershed Sciences at the University of California, Davis, concluded that farmers may see their wells run dry if the state remains parched for the next two years.

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