Category: 2025

Two North Texas water districts utilize wetlands to help meet growing water demand. Both water districts use the Trinity River as their wetlands’ source. “TRWD captures the water that hits these watersheds and pumps that water back upstream, uphill into the metroplex and it gets used.” Andrews explained, “It gets sent to a wastewater treatment…

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. Solving an underground problem What exactly is produced water? “Produced water is the wastewater that comes out of oil exploration and production activities,” Chellam said. “A long time ago, there used to…

Get to know the new director of the Texas Water Resources Institute. txH2O: What were you most looking forward to about leading TWRI? Piccinni: The institute boasts a rich legacy of conducting extensive research and providing education on the sustainable utilization of water resources. I look forward to continuing TWRI’s work of building teams that leverage…

Texas 4-H Water Ambassadors Program helps high school students learn about water issues and careers. New challenges, new solutions The concept started with Dirk Aaron, a former Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service agent now serving as general manager for Clearwater Underground Water Conservation District. David Smith leads the program and has been involved since the…

These 10 state-funded research projects are advancing Texas water. Researchers across Texas submitted proposals, and in September 2023 ten water research projects from throughout the Texas A&M System received a total of $2.39 million in funding through appropriations from the Texas Legislature to Texas A&M AgriLife Research, administered by TWRI. Each submission went through a…

TWRI’s Texas Watershed Planning Short Course teaches water professionals how to develop effective watershed protection plans. Nikki Dictson, a former TWRI specialist, and TWRI Associate Director Lucas Gregory, Ph.D., helped Wagner develop the program, with cooperation from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and Texas State Soil and Water Conservation Board, which fund the program…

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. But, it’s going to take all hands on deck to prepare for the worst. Planning for worst-case scenarios The state’s demographer and TWDB demographic researchers project that Texas’…

Texas A&M AgriLife Research scientists study the impacts of using treated water produced by oil and gas operations for irrigating non-consumptive crops. Could reusing produced water that’s been treated help local agricultural economies survive? Step one of answering these questions is, can the water be successfully treated and cleared of all industrial chemical levels that…

Texas Water Journal covers Texas’ water research spectrum TWRI water internship program wraps up first year

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,…