Vol 1, Issue 0

The Texas Legislature has guaranteed the right of landowners to install drought-resistant landscaping. The Senate passed a bill Monday denying homeowners' associations the power to ban landscaping designs intended to save water.

The Texas Water Development Board monitors more than 115 water reservoirs across the state. Of the 19 lakes and reservoirs in the West Texas area, 13 are down in water levels compared with last year.

The San Jacinto River Authority has entered into contracts with more than 80 large volume groundwater users in Montgomery County to develop and construct a project that meets the mandate for the groundwater reduction.

As Robert L. Gulley and Jenna B. Cantwell write in the Texas Water Journal, a new conservation plan could resolve decades of acrimonious rancor and litigation over the use of the Edwards Aquifer. 

The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality safeguards the state’s natural resources, but this week a federal judge found the agency responsible for the deaths of 23 whooping cranes — a ruling with potentially wide-ranging consequences.

Despite water’s saturation of the political priority list, the public still appears ambivalent about Texas’ water needs and out of step with state legislators on how to pay for it, according to the latest UT/Texas Tribune Poll.

Texas endured the most intense drought in recorded state history in 2011, and it has yet to bounce back. Using data collected from the Texas Water Development Board's reservoir status tracker, we are relaunching our auto-updating map that visualizes the current state of Texas reservoirs.

On April 9, Andrew Sansom one of Texas’ leading conservationists and the former executive director of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, will speak in Austin about Texas' water crisis.