The Texas Water Journal has published a new article in Volume 15 titled Addressing Challenges to Ensuring Justice and Sustainability in Policy and Infrastructure for Texas Water Resources in the 21st Century by Margaret A. Cook, Darrel M. Tremaine, Briana M. Wyatt, Jay L. Banner, Joni Charles, Matthew Berg, Tianna Bruno, Yael R. Glazer, Coy Callison, Robert E. Mace, Valerie Miller, Ryan Bare, Rosario Sanchez Flores, Jonathan Seefeldt, Amanda Fuller and Dev Niyogi.
Environmental justice and sustainability have become major concerns for water resource management in the United States, the authors state. In the article, the authors review many of these water resource management concerns. These concerns include water access, affordability, contamination, flooding, drought and aging infrastructure, for current and future climate conditions. The authors assess statewide and local policy and planning efforts and gaps in addressing these concerns. There is a focus on efforts to incorporate community voice to dismantle causes of injustice and improve equity in spending. This voice includes the ideas, concerns, needs and expertise of impacted community members.
This study provides a research agenda and recommendations for addressing some policy and planning gaps and persistent environmental justice issues to help water managers and policymakers identify and dismantle sources of inequity, particularly through including community voice.
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