August

TWRI and a coalition of groups has been given the green light to draft a watershed protection plan for the Petronila and San Fernando Creek watershed. This watershed feeds the Baffin Bay of southeastern Texas.

Texans with water wells in the path of Hurricanes Laura and Marco should take precautions before and after. Some simple efforts can help protect your well and your health.

Over 2.2 million Texas homes and businesses depend on septic systems, but these can cause human health and water quality problems if they aren’t working right. Read more to learn ways to find potential funding aid for repairing or replacing failing systems.

Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service’s Healthy Lawns and Healthy Waters Program will host five residential rainwater harvesting and turf management trainings focused on watersheds throughout Texas in August.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has accepted the Carancahua Bay Watershed Protection Plan, published by the Texas Water Resources Institute.

See the most recent publications by the TWRI water team including watershed protection plans, newsletters and technical reports.

Water security in Texas depends on water quality monitoring. At Texas Water Resources Institute, watershed restoration projects require consistent water quality monitoring once every two weeks for two years. In the water security issue of txH₂O, the article How does water quality monitoring work? gives a behind-the-scenes look.