Tag: water insecurity
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Mission Critical: The State Water Plan, Explained
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’…
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TWRI researcher analyzes multiple-use water services in low- and middle-income nations
Article originally written by Sadie Kammlah As a result of limited resources in low-and middle-income countries, most communities use the same water source for both domestic and productive uses. These uses include drinking water, irrigation and watering livestock. Matt Stellbauer, a Ph.D. candidate at Texas A&M University and research specialist at the Texas Water Resources…
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TWRI experts help Texans understand water after the big freeze
Article originally written by Kerry Halladay The devastation of Winter Storm Uri, which froze the state in February, left a lot of Texans in the dark. But the breakdown of the energy system also impacted the state’s water system, leaving millions with boil water notices and some without water at all. Texas news media reached…
