Tag: groundwater management
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Research roundup: recent water research from around Texas
Catch up on the latest peer-reviewed research on Texas water from throughout the state.
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Different States, Different Management Strategies
Texas groundwater management evolves Over 70 years later, Texas groundwater law and management is a patchwork of precedents and local GCDs, which remain the state’s preferred groundwater management tool. GCDs must receive local voter approval to be established and enact rules. Districts can manage groundwater through well spacing and production limitations, and can place requirements…
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Texas Groundwater Protection Committee
Article originally written by Cameron Castilaw In 1993, TGPC saw the 73rd Texas State Legislature amend the Texas Water Code to extend committee membership to the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station (now Texas A&M AgriLife Research) and the Bureau of Economic Geology at the University of Texas at Austin (the Bureau). The legislature set TGPC’s duties…
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Texas Water Journal publishes first paper in 2016 issue
The Texas Water Journal has published “Conjunctive groundwater management as a response to socio-ecological disturbances: a comparison of 4 western U.S. states,” its first paper in Volume 7, Number 1. Authors Zachary P. Sugg and Sonya Ziaja of the University of Arizona School of Geography and Development, and Edella C. Schlager of the University of Arizona School…
