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.
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.
Commissioners in Camp, Cass, Upshur and Wood counties voted June 30 to join a proposed 16-county regional groundwater conservation district, seeking legal authority over pumping from the Carrizo-Wilcox Aquifer before Dallas-area water planners drill 90 high-capacity wells in the region.
Texas' effort to control who pays for the power that data centers demand reaches two hard markers this month.
Texas is learning to adjust quickly to rapid population growth and increasingly frequent extreme weather.