The Guadalupe River. (Photo: Sam Craft, Texas A&M AgriLife Marketing and Communications.)
The Texas Water Resources Institute (TWRI) continued to lead and innovate in 2024, and welcomed new TWRI Director Giovanni Piccinni, Ph.D., to the institute. TWRI provides science-based, community-supported solutions for Texas’ pressing water challenges through internal expertise and external collaborations.
TWRI in 2024, by the numbers:
- $18.5+ million in ongoing external projects managed
- 80 ongoing external projects managed
- 17,193 contact hours TWRI staff spent educating professionals and the public at 95 events
- 100+ collaborators on TWRI projects
- 16,275 total newsletter magazine subscribers
- 107 media mentions
- 11,067 Total social media followers
- 2,635 total contact hours at 17 TWRI-hosted trainings with 432 attendees
- 356 students supported by TWRI since 2001 with $1.27 million
- 10 peer-reviewed journal articles published
