Tag: Texas Water Journal
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New Texas Water Journal commentary from Texas state Sen. Charles Perry
The Texas Water Journal invited Texas state Sen. Charles Perry, chair of the Senate Committee on Water and Rural Affairs, to share his thoughts on the role of water in the coming 87th legislative session of the Texas Legislature in a commentary titled, “Water: A Preventable Disaster.” In the upcoming legislative session, Sen. Perry said Texas will be navigating…
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Texas Water Journal publishes new article on groundwater recoverability
The Texas Water Journal has published a new article in the Volume 11 issue titled “Exploring Groundwater Recoverability in Texas: Maximum Economically Recoverable Storage,” by Justin C. Thompson, Charles W. Kreitler and Michael H. Young. The 2017 Texas state water plan projects total water supply deficits of 4.8 and 8.9 million acre-feet under drought-of-record conditions by the…
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Texas Water Journal publishes new program review: Internet of Texas water
The Texas Water Journal has published a new program review in the Volume 11 issue, titled “Internet of Texas Water: Use Cases for Flood, Drought, and Surface Water–Groundwater Interactions,” by Rudolph A. Rosen, Robert E. Mace, Sam Marie Hermitte and Richard Wade. This review is an update to the previously published journal article, An Internet for Water: Connecting…
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Texas Water Journal publishes new commentary on Rio Grande water deliveries
The Texas Water Journal invited The Honorable Jayne Harkins, P.E., U.S. Commissioner for the International Boundary and Water Commission, to share her thoughts on water deliveries from Mexico to the Rio Grande in a commentary titled, “Commentary: Fact vs. Fiction on Rio Grande Deliveries.” Water deliveries from Mexico are governed by two treaties, one from 1906 and one from 1944.…
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Texas Water Journal publishes new article on Texas dams
The Texas Water Journal has published a new article in the Volume 11 issue titled “Dams Are Coming Down, but Not Always by Choice: The Geography of Texas Dams, Dam Failures, and Dam Removals” by Erin D. Dascher and Kimberly Meitzen. The article examines spatial and temporal trends in Texas dams, dam failures and dam removals. Dams were…
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Texas Water Journal publishes new article
The Texas Water Journal published a new article in the Volume 11 issue titled “Hydrodynamic Modeling Results Showing the Effects of the Luce Bayou Interbasin Transfer on Salinity in Lake Houston, TX” by Erik A. Smith and Sachin Shah. An overreliance on groundwater resources in the Houston (Texas) metropolitan area has led to aquifer drawdowns and land subsidence.…
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Texas Water Journal publishes new book review in Volume 11
The Texas Water Journal published a new book review in the Volume 11 issue titled “Book Review: Regulating Water Security in Unconventional Oil and Gas” by Jessica Foster. The book is a collection of articles authored by professionals from disciplines as diverse as agriculture, zoology, law and economics. According to Foster, the authors take a multidisciplinary look at…
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Texas Water Journal has published a new article in Volume 11
The Texas Water Journal published a new article in the Volume 11, Number 1, 2020 issue titled “Runoff Inflow Volumes to the Highland Lakes in Central Texas: Temporal Trends in Volumes and Relations between Volumes and Selected Climatic Indices” by Raymond M. Slade, Jr. The article focuses on the decreased inflow to the Highland Lakes from 1942–2013. According…
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Texas Water Journal selects Cough-Schulze as managing editor
The Texas Water Journal Board of Directors has selected Chantal Cough-Schulze as its new managing editor, according to Dr. Todd Votteler, the journal’s editor-in-chief. Cough-Schulze, a communications specialist for the Texas Water Resources Institute (TWRI), will work with the editors and authors to move the papers through the submission, editing and layout process. Cough-Schulze replaces Kathy Wythe, who recently retired…
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Texas Water Journal publishes new article in Volume 11
The Texas Water Journal published the second paper for the Volume 11, Number 1, 2020 issue: an article titled “Oilfield Water Infrastructure Connectivity: The Case for a ‘Hydrovascular’ Network in the Permian Basin,” by Gabriel Collins. The paper focuses on the current phase of oilfield water infrastructure buildout in the Permian Basin. According to the abstract, a hydrovascular grid…
