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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…

Article originally written by Madison Pigg “The better the data, the better the science; the better the science, the better the planning,” said Heather Dodson, data team lead in TWDB’s groundwater technical assistance department. That is what TWDB strives for, and collecting this data, even when difficult, is worthwhile for the health of the state’s…

A complete count or map of the aquifers along the U.S.-Mexico border did not exist until 2023.  Thanks to the leadership of Rosario Sanchez, Ph.D., Texas Water Resources Institute (TWRI) senior research scientist and TAAP lead, that map of all 72 shared borderland aquifers is now publicly available. (See map below.) Of those shared aquifers, 32 are…

As part of the initiative, Jepson is studying household water security in the urban global south, particularly in Brazil and rural communities in Costa Rica. She spent the 2017 spring semester in Brazil on a Fulbright Fellowship, teaching and conducting research as part of the Urban Water Provision Systems and Household Water Security in Northeast…

The Texas Water Resources Institute recently published the fall 2023 issue of txH2O magazine, focused on new challenges facing Texas water supplies. In this issue, learn about the research teams dismantling forever chemicals, helping cities adapt with green infrastructure, managing reservoirs strategically and more:  txH2O magazine features stories on current water resources research and outreach programs…

UT geoscientists using climate models to inform Austin’s long-term water plan To improve the resolution, researchers downscale the models by using statistical relationships between what the models have shown on a broad global level and local climate data, such as data collected by the Texas Water Development Board (TWDB) and other agencies — precipitation, lake…

Hundreds of Texas students compete in National Geographic challenge Thanks to tireless schoolteachers, students’ hard work and support from TWRI and Texas A&M AgriLife, this spring hundreds of middle and high school students in Texas produced educational videos about environmental science for the National Geographic Slingshot Challenge. Faculty Fellows Program TWRI’s Faculty Fellows Program leverages…

A complicated environmental problem PFAS have two classifications: short-chain and long-chain, depending on their chemical make-up. While there is a little overlap, short-chain PFAS are typically defined as having less than six to eight carbon atoms, while long-chain PFAS have more than six to eight carbons. Long-chain compounds have different rates of solubility, transport and…

Understanding Texas’ reservoirs Max Strickler has managed federal reservoirs in Texas for over 10 years and knows many of those lakes inside and out. As a water management lead engineer for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) – Fort Worth District, he supervises reservoir operations for 25 reservoirs across Texas, and each is a balancing…