February

CANCELED: Urban Stream Processes and Restoration Training workshop on March 18 in Austin.

As a Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service program specialist for the Texas Water Resources Institute, Monroe connects the public with what they need, from educational events to septic systems, to accomplish their goals.

The Texas Water Resources Institute has published the newsletter, Natural Resources Training Courses Update, with a list of scheduled trainings for 2020.

The Texas Water Resources Institute has been working with the Attoyac Bayou Watershed Partnership for the past decade to improve water quality, which includes repairing and replacing septic systems.

The Attoyac Bayou Watershed Partnership was developed with interested local stakeholders to better understand the sources of high E. coli levels in the watershed.

The National Integrated Water Availability Assessments concept map by the U.S. Geological Survey shows the latest available daily estimate of natural water storage in the continental-United States relative to historical conditions.

What does water security mean to you? In preparation for the publication of our winter 2020 issue of txH₂O — a focus on the connection of water and health — we are highlighting the article Understanding water security.

The Texas Water Journal published the first paper for the Volume 11, Number 1, 2020 issue: a policy review titled “State Legislature, Voters Move to Eighty-Six Texas’s Flooding Challenges,” by Matthew D. Berg.

In January, we spotlighted our Mills Scholars Program, which awards at least four $5,000 scholarships to graduate students who are pursuing research in water-related studies at Texas A&M University, Texas A&M–Galveston and Texas A&M–Qatar.