Category: 2025
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AgriLife Water Experts Serve Texas
Estimated reading time: 12 minutes From east to west, Texas A&M AgriLife water professionals serve all Texans More Information Want to get txH20 delivered right to your inbox? Click to subscribe. Texas A&M AgriLife Research and the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service are two sides of the same coin. For more than 100 years, AgriLife Research and AgriLife Extension have…
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North Wetlands Scale-Up Innovative Water Use
Estimated reading time: 5 minutes Two North Texas water districts utilize wetlands to help meet growing water demand More Information Want to get txH20 delivered right to your inbox? Click to subscribe. As Texas grows in population, the need for alternate water supply sources grows with it. The Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex has experienced a large increase in…
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Cleaning Produced Water
Estimated reading time: 5 minutes 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 More Information Want to get txH20 delivered right to your inbox? Click to subscribe. Hydraulic fracturing for oil and gas extraction produces water laced with high levels of salt…
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Q&A with Giovanni Piccinni
Estimated reading time: 5 minutes Get to know the new director of the Texas Water Resources Institute More Information Want to get txH20 delivered right to your inbox? Click to subscribe. For more than seven decades, the Texas Water Resources Institute (TWRI) has helped Texans solve critically important water problems. The institute welcomed a new leader in…
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Empowering the Next Generation
Estimated reading time: 9 minutes Texas 4-H Water Ambassadors Program helps high school students learn about water issues and careers More Information Want to get txH20 delivered right to your inbox? Click to subscribe. High school can be a time of discovery for many teens as they figure out their interests and decide what career to pursue.…
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10 Big Water Problems, 10 Big Teams
Estimated reading time: 12 minutes These 10 state-funded research projects are advancing Texas water More Information Want to get txH20 delivered right to your inbox? Click to subscribe. The water problems facing Texas are as diverse as the state’s vast landscape, and many involve information gaps and research questions difficult for singular academic departments or research labs…
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Short Course, Long Impact
Estimated reading time: 4 minutes TWRI’s Texas Watershed Planning Short Course teaches water professionals how to develop effective watershed protection plans More Information Want to get txH20 delivered right to your inbox? Click to subscribe. A watershed protection plan can be a daunting task, both to create and implement. With many moving parts and considerations involved in…
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Mission Critical: The State Water Plan, Explained
Estimated reading time: 8 minutes To prevent water supply shortfalls during future extreme droughts, new water supply strategies must be funded and implemented — and this plan is Texas’ official path forward More Information Want to get txH20 delivered right to your inbox? Click to subscribe. “Failure is not an option,” says NASA Flight Director Gene Krantz…
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Can Treated Produced Water Safely Irrigate Crops?
Estimated reading time: 5 minutes Texas A&M AgriLife Research scientists study the impacts of using treated water produced by oil and gas operations for irrigating non-consumptive crops More Information Want to get txH20 delivered right to your inbox? Click to subscribe. There is one type of water currently in abundance in West Texas and Far West Texas:…
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Water Research and News
Texas Water Journal covers Texas’ water research spectrum TWRI water internship program wraps up first year