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- Nominations for Water Conservation Advisory Council sought
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The Texas Water Development Board is seeking nominations for members to serve on the Water Conservation Advisory Council. The 80th Legislature directed the TWDB to establish the council to serve as an expert resource to state government and the public on water conservation in Texas. The deadline for council recommendations is July 31. Each nomination [...]
- Agriculture staff, research team recognized with awards
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A TWRI project and several TWRI and Texas A&M Agriculture staff who work closely with TWRI were recently recognized with several prestigious awards for contributions to the workplace, research and education. The Rio Grande Basin Initiative (RGBI) Research Team, Patricia “Patt” Junek, Robert “Bob” Whitney and Dr. C. Allan Jones were awarded Vice Chancellor’s Awards [...]
- Water research and education funding workshop set during Agriculture Conference
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The Texas Water Resources Institute (TWRI) will hold a workshop, “Funding Your Water Research/Education Program: One-on-One with Water Agencies,” in conjunction with the annual Texas A&M Agriculture Conference in College Station. The conference is scheduled for Monday, Jan. 8, 2007 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. with additional time allotted for individual discussions from 4 [...]
- Agreement signed to commercialize desalination technology
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Representatives from the Global Petroleum Research Institute (GPRI) of the Texas Engineering Experiment Station, the Harold Vance Department of Petroleum Engineering at Texas A&M University and The Texas A&M University System Office of Technology Commercialization signed an agreement Monday (Oct. 23) to commercialize a desalination process technology with GeoPure Water Technologies LLC.
Signing the agreement are [...] - Saltcedar beetles successfully introduced near Big Spring
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Saltcedar beetles introduced to help control the water-consuming, invasive saltcedar tree along the Upper Colorado River have defoliated 18 acres of a saltcedar stand, an increase in defoliation of 10 times each year for 3 years, according to a researcher involved in the project.
“We expect the beetles to begin actually killing trees in 2 more [...] - Perry: Environmental Efforts to Focus on Trinity River Basin
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Perry promises money to help Trinity water quality
ARLINGTON – Gov. Rick Perry announced today a major environmental initiative on the Trinity River to improve its ecosystem and water quality. More than $500,000 in state seed money and in-kind contributions is being made available to the Trinity River Basin Environmental Restoration [...] - Fact sheets available on technologies to reduce phosphorus runoff
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By Courtney Swyden
Going into its second year of evaluating new technologies, Texas Cooperative Extension and Texas Water Resources Institute are collaborating to reduce high levels of phosphorus runoff from two Central Texas watersheds. The New Technologies for Animal Waste Pollution Control project, funded through a 319 grant from the Texas State Soil and Water Conservation [...] - Texas Water Resources Institute establishes office to analyze critical water issues
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The Texas Water Resources Institute recently established the Office of Strategic Water Issues to provide non-biased, science-based analyses of critical water issues facing Texas, according to Allan Jones, the institute’s director.
Jones said the office will develop consensus recommendations and communicate these to policy and decision makers to help them make informed decisions on these complicated [...] - Partnering with the Military
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Agriculture uses compost to restore Fort Hood’s training lands
Texas Agricultural Experiment Station researchers have partnered with Fort Hood personnel to identify a natural “weapon” to restore the facility’s tank training areas—land and soils seriously eroded, compacted and stripped of the most desirable vegetation by the repeated pounding of 70-ton tanks.
After three years of studies, researchers [...] - Project wins environment award
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The Fort Hood Range Revegetation Pilot Project, a joint project of the Texas Water Resources Institute and the Blackland Research and Extension Center, won the 2006 Texas Environmental Excellence Award for Agriculture. The award, sponsored by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and Gov. Rick Perry, was presented to the project staff at the agency’s [...]
- Texas Gold Rush
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Scientists seek to understand and control golden alga
A free-floating microscopic alga is increasingly appearing in some Texas lakes and rivers, releasing its deadly toxins and wiping out millions of fish. Texas scientists have taken on the assignment of understanding the culprit and developing strategies for its control.
Golden alga, or Prymnesium parvum, was first identified in [...] - Natural Predator
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Foreign beetle shows promise for controlling saltcedar
In the northern part of the Texas Panhandle and along the West Texas banks of the Colorado and Pecos rivers, Texas scientists are successfully introducing a foreign beetle to help control an invasive and exotic water-thirsty plant.
Saltcedar, or Tamarix, was introduced to the western United States in the 1800s [...] - Every Drop Counts
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Rio Grande initiative expands efficient irrigation, water conservation
Since its inception in 2001, the Rio Grande Basin Initiative (RGBI) has achieved significant water savings and accomplishments. A joint effort of Texas A&M Agriculture and New Mexico State University College of Agriculture and Home Economics, the initiative’s nine research and education tasks address efficient irrigation and water [...] - A Piece of the Puzzle
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Transporting dairy compost helps in water quality solutions
Transporting dairy manure from Central Texas dairy farms and turning it into marketable, quality compost is a “piece of the puzzle” in finding solutions to improve water quality in the North Bosque River and Leon River watersheds.
Approximately 148 dairies with more than 98,000 cows operate in these two [...] - Saving an Underground Reservoir
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Scientists partner to document efficient use
A visitor to the Central and Southern High Plains of the United States can gaze upon field after field of crops and rangelands for cattle—the sources of a significant part of the region’s agricultural economy. Though the area has few rivers and lakes, underneath it lies a supply of water [...]
