Tag Archives: Water
Water Board Passes Plan To Boost Supply as Texas Grows
The TWDB on Thursday approved a five-year water management plan that projects Texas’ population will grow by 70 percent by 2070....Read More
State of Texas: The Hills Have Allies
A new report by University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture looks at some of the threats to the Hill Country, and proposes long-term solutions. ...Read More
Holding Back the Flood
For activists in the Valley’s colonias, success looks like a drainage ditch.
For activists in the Valley’s colonias, success looks like a drainage ditch....Read More
Hill Country Water Torture
Fighting over groundwater rights is all too common in Texas, but the Electro Purification deal has inflamed people unlike any other. ...Read More
State of Texas: How Much Water Does Texas Really Need?
A report suggests that state water planners have drastically overestimated how much water Texas will need by 2060....Read More
New Analysis: Fracking Water Use Underestimated in Eagle Ford Shale
The amount of water used by frackers in South Texas is increasingly coming into focus—and it's considerably more than official estimates....Read More
A River No More
We made a bet long ago that the rains would always come. So we failed to plan. Now the rains have ceased, and the demands are incalculable....Read More
Come And Take It: Court Ruling Dares Regulators to Limit Pumping
A major decision came down in the arcane, but important world of Texas water law last week—opening the door to more lawsuits against local groundwater boards ...Read More
Q&A with Kate Galbraith on Wind, Water and Leaving Texas
I talk with Kate Galbraith, who covered energy and environment for the Texas Tribune from 2010 to till just a few weeks ago when she left for the (literally) gr...Read More