Reporting on Texas water -- drought and supply, reservoirs and groundwater, utility infrastructure, conservation rules, and the growing competition for a finite resource.
Farms, factories and water utilities that pump from the Edwards Aquifer are back under the deepest cut in the aquifer's drought plan: a 35 percent reduction in their permitted withdrawals, up from 30 percent.
Farms, factories and water utilities that pump from the Edwards Aquifer will now have their permitted withdrawals cut 30 percent instead of 35 percent, after the agency that regulates the aquifer moved the San Antonio Pool back to a less severe drought stage.
The Texas Water Development Board meets Wednesday morning for a briefing session with nothing on it to vote on.
This week, the expansion of artificial intelligence data centers emerged as the single most urgent policy challenge before the Texas Legislature.
The environmental commission works through a 62-item agenda in which Marathon's Blanchard Refining appears four times, the roll call of respondents reads like a tour of the Gulf Coast petrochemical corridor, and two watermaster decisions could tighten how water rights are policed in the Sulphur River and Rio Grande basins.When: 9:30 AM CT, Thursday, July 30, 2026Where: TCEQ Campus, 12100 Park 35 Circle, Building E, Room 201S, Austin — and by Zoom (webinar ID 840 8231 5129, access code 396820) or by phone at (346) 248-7799Governing body: Texas Commission on Environmental Quality Format: Commissioners' agenda meeting; 62 items Live video: TCEQ webcasts page · TCEQ on YouTubeFull agenda: Posted agenda, July 30, 2026 (PDF) · marked agenda Fifty-two of the 62 items on the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality's Thursday agenda are enforcement orders, and the great majority are agreed orders — negotiated settlements in which a company accepts a penalty and required corrective actions without contesting the alleged violations.
Drought across Texas contracted sharply in June after a third straight month of above-normal rainfall, according to the Texas Water Development Board's latest Water and Weather report.
The Texas Water Development Board has published the second installment of an "Ask an Expert" series in which agency hydrologist Dr. Mark Wentzel answers common questions about the reservoir data featured on the state's Water Data for Texas dashboard.
The Texas Water Development Board has awarded more than $7 million in grants to 43 groundwater conservation districts across the state, funding research and data-collection projects intended to strengthen local groundwater management and planning.
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department is opening four new paddling trails in the coastal community of Palacios, a launch that marks the 100th trail added to the Texas Paddling Trails program.
The public comment period on proposed groundwater decline targets for a management area spanning North and Central Texas closes Wednesday, ending a three-month window on figures that will govern pumping permits from Tarrant County to the Hill Country.
Upshur County commissioners voted July 15 to join a proposed 16-county groundwater conservation district in East Texas, advancing a regional effort to regulate the large wells that Dallas-area planners and private investors want to drill over the Carrizo-Wilcox Aquifer.
Governor Greg Abbott's deadline for regulators to spell out how they will keep data-center costs off Texans' electric bills arrives Friday, but the state's push to rein in the industry is running into a problem it cannot regulate away: the calendar.
The Neches & Trinity Valleys Groundwater Conservation District board will meet Thursday to consider adopting new groundwater rules that would cap pumping from the Carrizo-Wilcox Aquifer, days after companies tied to Dallas investor Kyle Bass sued the district in federal court over its permitting moratorium.
Tech giant Meta Platforms, Inc. issued a comprehensive regulatory response to the Texas House Committee on Natural Resources, detailing its infrastructure cooling mechanisms and long-term water conservation targets amid heightening state scrutiny over industrial resource consumption.