Vol 4, Issue 12

A recent Texas Supreme Court ruling favoring a South Plains ranch was described by some as a major win for private property rights, but others painted it as more of a win for developers.

In this week's Q&A, we interview Tim Loftus, a faculty member in the Department of Geography at Texas State University and chair in water conservation at the Meadows Center for Water and the Environment.

Key meetings and events over the coming weeks.

A SWIFT funding workshop on water conservation projects will be held in Grapevine on June 23.

Ongoing research and archeological discoveries relating to Native American history in the area around Spring Lake will become part of a new exhibit at Discovery Hall.

 The annual Texas Water Safari, billed as the nation's toughest canoe race, has been postponed until June 25 because of the flooding conditions of the past two weeks.

U.S. water utilities are learning that they are vulnerable to cyberattacks against the computer networks and the industrial control systems that control dam gates and pumps and disinfect drinking water.

Overflow from fracking ponds in oil fields have become a problem from neighboring ranchers who discover that there is no clear regulation for the problem.

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