The Texas Water Journal has published a new commentary in Volume 16, titled “89th Texas State Legislature: Summaries of Water-Related Legislative Action,” by Jeremy B. Mazur, Sarah R. Kirkle, Vanessa Puig-Williams, Leah K. Martinsson, Alan Leonard, Evgenia Spears, Adam Foster, Perry L. Fowler, and Todd H. Votteler.
September 1 of every odd-numbered year is the date when most new legislation from the most recent session of the Texas Legislature typically goes into effect. With this in mind, the Texas Water Journal invited seven organizations that work closely with the Texas Legislature to provide their take on the changes to Texas water policy and law that were made during the 2025 session.
The seven organizations include: Texas Water Association; Texas Alliance of Groundwater Districts; Texas Water Foundation; Sierra Club, Lone Star Chapter; Texas Water Infrastructure Network; Environmental Defense; and Texas 2036.
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The journal — an online, peer-reviewed journal published by the nonprofit, the Texas Water Journal, in cooperation with the Texas Water Resources Institute, a unit of Texas A&M AgriLife Research that brings together expertise from across the Texas A&M University System, the Bureau of Economic Geology in the Jackson School of Geosciences at The University of Texas at Austin, and the Water and the Environment Research Center in the Department of Civil, Environmental and Construction Engineering at Texas Tech University — publishes papers as they are completed.
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