March

World Water Day, held every year on March 22, aims to celebrate water and bring awareness to the 2.2 billion people living without access to safe water. The theme of this year’s World Water Day is about what water means to people, its true value and how we can become better stewards of this resource.

The 2021 Ogallala Aquifer Summit focused on sharing information about community-led activities and identifying current barriers and opportunities related to effectively managing this valuable resource over the short and long term.

The book “Climate Change and Extreme Events,” recently published by Elsevier, explores the relationship between climate change-related weather events and their impact on human lives through a multidisciplinary lens.

Jaclyn Robertson is a third-generation Aggie and the fourth generation to live on her family's property in Milano County, Texas. Her strong connection to her community and deep Texas roots is what motivates her work as an AgriLife Extension associate for the Texas Water Resources Institute.

The big freeze in Texas left a lot of people without clean water and with questions. Local and national news media reached out to TWRI experts for answers.

The Blackland Research Center, a part of Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center in Temple, TX, is seeking to hire a full-time non-tenure-track faculty member.

The Texas Water Journal has published two new papers in Volume 12: an article titled Storage and Regulation of River Flows by Dams and Reservoirs by Ralph A. Wurbs and a commentary titled Fresh, Clean Water for Texans Now and for Generations to Come by Tracy O. King, a Texas state representative and chairman of the Texas House of Representative Committee on Natural Resources.

TWRI Director John Tracy, Ph.D., spoke to Miranda Suarez of KERA News about the surprise shutdown of three of Fort Worth's four water plants during the big freeze of Winter Storm Uri.

Texans are no strangers to extreme weather events such as drought, flood and now freeze. In light of the severe winter storm that hit Texas earlier this year, this month’s txH₂O highlight is Extremely Expected from the Texas’ Extreme Weather issue of txH₂O.

Lucas Gregory, Ph.D., assistant director of TWRI, spoke to Bryan-College Station, TX-local news station KBTX-TV3’s Donnie Tuggle on February 18 about discolored water after the freeze from Winter Storm Uri.

Wendy Jepson, Ph.D., associate director of TWRI, talked to radio show Think's host Krys Boyd on February 22 about the energy-water nexus and what went wrong during the big freeze during Winter Storm Uri.