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Texas A&M AgriLife salt cedar control team earns Vice Chancellor’s Award
The Salt Cedar Biological Control Team has been honored with the Texas A&M AgriLife Vice Chancellor’s Award in Excellence. The award was presented Jan. 9 during the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service Centennial Conference in College Station. The Vice Chancellor’s Awards in Excellence were established in 1980 to recognize the commitment and outstanding contributions of Texas A&M…
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New report from Texas Comptroller analyzes drought economic impacts
Texas Comptroller Susan Combs has released a report examining the effects of the water challenges facing the state and offering recommendations to the Legislature. Texas Water Report: Going Deeper for the Solution, which revisits the effects of recent drought conditions, examines research-driven approaches for augmenting Texas’ water supply and proposes practical answers for the state’s growing thirst, according…
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Did You Know? Q&A with Tiffany Dowell
By Tiffany Dowell Editor’s Note: txH2O asked Tiffany Dowell, assistant professor and Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service specialist focusing on agricultural law, to answer some questions about groundwater law for our readers. To read more, follow Dowell’s blog, Texas Agricultural Law. Who owns groundwater in Texas? Landowners in Texas own the water beneath their property. Moreover,…
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Texas Well Owner Network
In Texas, the management of domestic drinking water wells is the responsibility of the landowners, which can create questions about how to protect well water quality and quantity, as well as how to deal with drought and other issues. The Texas Well Owners Network (TWON) provides landowners with answers. “The TWON program is the groundwater quality education…
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Texas Groundwater Administration
There are two main parts of the complex, multi-faceted process that is groundwater administration in Texas: the management side and the planning side. It’s the intersection of the two that is presenting some potential hiccups as the 2017 state water plan is being compiled, according to experts. Texas groundwater management history Beginning with the…
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Protect our land Protect our water
By Leslie Lee Why would San Antonio residents care enough about rural land in the two counties west of their city to vote tax dollars toward conserving it? Why would the city of Austin work to protect valuable nearby land from lucrative economic development? And, why should the average urban Texan give a second thought…
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Is it Time for Texas to Welcome ASR?
Aquifer storage and recovery (ASR) has been described as an “easy” answer to “more” water by taking excess water, injecting it into aquifers and then pulling it back out in times of need, such as during drought. While some states to the east and west widely use ASR, that is not the case in Texas.…
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Everybody is Talking About It
Texas Comptroller Susan Combs is writing about it, the Texas Legislature’s Joint Interim Committee to Study Water Desalination is exploring it, and cities in the Rio Grande Valley, far West Texas and Central Texas are already using it. As Texas’ population continues to multiply and with drought never far out of the picture, the use of brackish…
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Regional plan provides regional solutions
By Katie Heinrich Eight endangered species listings, years of stakeholder negotiations and one federally approved habitat conservation plan later, the Edwards Aquifer Authority (EAA) and its partners are providing stability to water management in the Edwards Aquifer region. The Edwards Aquifer Habitat Conservation Plan (EAHCP) seeks to strike a balance between protecting the endangered species and the ability to…
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Groundwater 101
Science of groundwater Aquifer: Aquifers are geological formations that can store, transmit and yield groundwater to a well or spring.Groundwater comes from nine major and 21 minor aquifers in Texas. Aquifer storage and recovery (ASR): A type of water management system, ASR is generally defined as the deliberate recharge and temporary storage of excess water in…
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