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Drought

Last Year, a Corpus Christi Cryptomine Guzzled over 11 Million Gallons. Now, Its Water Usage Is Being Kept Secret.

Amid its water crisis, the city declined to supply public records on the Bitcoin mine's usage, citing a state law that allows nondisclosure of an individual customer’s account.

by Candice Bernd

Keep Reading

Corpus Christi Water Crisis Spurs Stampede on South Texas Aquifers

by Dylan Baddour

The Corpus Christi Water Crisis Isn’t Exceptional. It’s Early.

by Mezabahnur Masum

‘With What Water?’

by Chilton Tippin

Aug 23, 2018

El Paso is on the Cutting Edge of Water Conservation. It Really Has No Choice.

by Zoë Schlanger

Aug 22, 2018

The Next Megadrought in the American Southwest May Be Right Around the Corner

by Zoë Schlanger

lake travis, 100th meridian, 2011 drought May 16, 2018

Austin’s on the Wrong Side of the 100th Meridian

The invisible line that divides the arid western part of the country from the wetter eastern half is on the move, and that has important implications for the Texas capital.

by Christopher Collins

Nov 21, 2017

TCEQ Punts on Water Rights Fight on the San Saba River

Commissioners decided not to appoint a watermaster on the San Saba, a tributary of the Colorado that ran dry every summer from 2011 to 2015.

by Naveena Sadasivam

June 2016 State of Texas, houston flooding, climate change May 27, 2016

State of Texas: These Days, When it Rains it Pours

by Naveena Sadasivam

The sun sets over Bastrop County, burned trees and barren land marring its horizon. Oct 22, 2015

Wildfires Likely the ‘New Normal’ for Bastrop

Climate change has come to Bastrop, whether or not Texas politicians are willing to admit it.

by Hannah McBride

Wimberley town hall on water Mar 09, 2015

Hill Country Water Torture

by Forrest Wilder

Katharine Hayhoe and Michael Webber on climate change Dec 18, 2014

The Next 60: Cutting Carbon and Reinventing the Economy

by Katharine Hayhoe and Michael Webber

Nov 19, 2014

Untapped

How graywater could be a conservation method for the masses. (But isn't.)

by Fauzeya Rahman

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