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 Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) is asking waterfowl hunters to help protect Texas water bodies from aquatic invasive species by cleaning, draining and drying boats and hunting equipment before traveling from lake to lake, according to an Oct. 29 news release.
The groundwater district that covers western Hays County has a state-modeled ceiling of about 9,100 acre-feet a year.
A new explainer from the Texas Water Newsroom, posted Oct. 21, describes how smart water meters are helping Amarillo and other Texas communities conserve water by turning consumption data into information utilities can act on.
The three-member board that finances most of Texas’s water construction meets Oct. 23 with exactly one item on its agenda it can vote on: naming a person to act on the board’s behalf while its executive administrator is away.
Texas environmental regulators decide Oct. 21 whether to throw out a company’s application for a concrete plant on the edge of Burleson — and to throw it out for good, as the state’s own administrative law judges have recommended.
The Railroad Commission of Texas (RRC) said Commissioner Wayne Christian on Thursday urged Texas lawmakers and regulators to fast-track a clear, efficient regulatory pathway for the industrial reuse of treated produced water, according to an Oct. 15 news release.
Texas water utilities that never told their customers the pipe running into the house might be made of lead will start collecting violations by the end of October, the state’s environmental agency said Oct. 13 — and it does not know, or did not say, how many households were left in the dark.
Drought covers far less of Texas than it did a week earlier, but the water sitting in the state's reservoirs has still not caught up.
Cities and developers seeking permission to pipe treated sewage into a Texas creek may now hire their own consultants to run the computer model that decides how clean that water has to be, under a change the state’s environmental agency put into effect Oct. 13 — with no rule, no comment period and no written policy it has published.
The three-member board that finances most Texas water construction meets Oct. 14 for a work session at which, by the agenda's own terms, it will take no final action on anything.
The state council that pays Texas farmers and ranchers to keep their land out of subdivisions meets Oct. 13 to rewrite how it scores grant applications, and written comments on that vote have to reach Texas Parks and Wildlife by 9 a.m. the morning of the meeting.
Neighbors of a biogas plant that would spray treated waste across 4,553 acres of Ellis County farmland won the right Oct. 7 to fight the permit in front of an independent judge.