December

Growing up in the Texas Hill Country, Lindsay Sansom, Ph.D., fell in love with water. As an adult, she has spent her entire career helping others connect with — and protect — their local water sources.

A busted water main can cause thousands to millions of gallons of water to come gushing out of the ground, putting a city’s water supply at risk. Texas residents live in a state with erratic weather patterns and are no strangers to these occurrences.

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.”

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.

In the midst of the pandemic and converting in-person events to virtual meetings, the TWRI communications team has covered everything from per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) to flood planning. Read the top 10 articles from 2020.

A popular txH₂O article read in 2020 is Water, but no workers, from the summer 2019 Water Utilities Challenges issue.