Reporting on Texas water -- drought and supply, reservoirs and groundwater, utility infrastructure, conservation rules, and the growing competition for a finite resource.
Texas oil and gas wells throw off roughly 26 million barrels of salty wastewater a day, and operators pump nearly 30 million barrels a day back underground.
Corpus Christi can continue holding back the fresh water it owes Nueces Bay until its reservoirs are half full, Texas environmental regulators decided Sept. 9, affirming a drought emergency order without changing a word.
Governor Greg Abbott and White House National Cyber Director Sean Cairncross launched Project Watershed 250 in San Antonio on Monday, a joint initiative that connects Texas water utility providers with cyber defense resources at no cost.
The Texas Water Development Board meets Sept. 2 for a briefing on a one-time grant program that drew nearly $6.9 billion in requests for the roughly $1 billion the Legislature put in it.
Texas’ fish and wildlife agency has asked state environmental regulators not to give Corpus Christi more time than the city asked for before it must resume sending fresh water down to Nueces Bay, the nursery for the region’s shrimp and redfish.
The Texas Water Development Board has completed the 200th survey in its Hydrographic Survey Program, a milestone in the agency's decades-long effort to document how much water Texas reservoirs can actually hold today.
The Texas Water Development Board is urging Texans to adopt water-wise habits at home as a persistent heat dome and expanding drought push water demand higher across the state.
The Texas Senate Committee on Water, Agriculture and Rural Affairs will gavel in at 9 a.m. Sept. 2 to take invited and public testimony on a single interim charge covering the Pecos River Basin: falling flows, the interstate compact that governs them, the 1930s special district that stores the water, and the treated oilfield wastewater that companies want to put into the river.
The Texas General Land Office has approved $9,500,000 in disaster recovery funds for a wastewater collection system improvement project in the city of Prairie View, Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham, M.D., announced in an Aug. 26 news release.
On the morning of Aug. 18, nineteen people were receiving dialysis at Childress Regional Medical Center.
Texas environmental regulators have given Corpus Christi permission to stop releasing water from its two main reservoirs into Nueces Bay, an emergency order that took effect immediately and runs through Dec. 23.
The Texas Senate Committee on Water, Agriculture and Rural Affairs will gavel in at 9 a.m. Sept. 1 to take invited and public testimony on a single interim charge: how much water the state's data centers and other energy-intensive industries consume, and what Texas should require them to disclose.
Texas built a fund to buy water that does not exist yet.
The Texas Water Development Board meets Aug. 24 to vote on a $7 million grant to the Nueces River Authority for engineering work on a seawater desalination plant near Port Aransas.