The Texas Water Resources Institute recently published the summer 2025 issue of txH2O magazine, focused on the leaders and programs building future Texas water professionals and ensuring future Texas water supplies.
In this issue, Texas water innovation and research are under the microscope.
From youth water ambassadors to cutting-edge water reuse research, explore the people, science, and strategies shaping the future of water in Texas:
- Water Research and News: Recent water science news from around the state.
- Q&A with Giovanni Piccinni: Get to know the director of the Texas Water Resources Institute.
- Mission Critical: The State Water Plan, Explained: To prevent near-future water supply shortfalls, the State Water Plan's strategies, timeline and new funding sources must succeed.
- Cleaning Produced Water: Creating new possibilities for water reuse, this Texas A&M professor’s lab is perfecting techniques for treating water byproduct from oil and gas production.
- Can Treated Produced Water Safely Irrigate Crops?: Texas A&M AgriLife Research scientists study the impacts of using filtered produced water for irrigating non-edible crops.
- Empowering the Next Generation: Texas 4-H Water Ambassadors Program helps high school students learn about water issues and careers.
- AgriLife Water Experts Serve Texas: From east to west, Texas A&M AgriLife water professionals serve all Texans.
- North Texas Wetlands Scale-Up Innovative Water Reuse: Two North Texas water districts utilize wetlands to help meet growing water demand.
- 10 Big Water Problems, 10 Big Teams: These 10 state-funded research projects are advancing Texas water.
- Short Course, Long Impact: TWRI’s Texas Watershed Planning Short Course teaches water professionals how to develop effective watershed protection plans.
Since 2005, TWRI has published txH2O to provide Texas with an educational magazine featuring current water resources research and outreach programs in Texas, as well as priority water issues facing the state.
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