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Learn about TWRI’s water quality monitoring process with this dispatch from a recent spring day collecting data at Town Creek in beautiful weather. 

Lin researches optical sensors for water quality monitoring. 

The workshop includes a discussion on watershed systems, types and sources of water pollution.

From creeks flowing backward to disappearing streambanks, TWRI's water quality monitoring team offers post-flooding streamside tales and insights on how extreme rain events alter water quality in creeks and rivers.

Follow along with our water team as they conduct regularly scheduled water monitoring at one of our newest project sites, Town Creek. 

Get a behind-the-scenes look at TWRI's water team conducting regular water quality monitoring in Deer Creek and Pond Creek during the total solar eclipse on April 8.

Private well owners can get their water tested and learn about well maintenance at a series of "Well Informed" and "Well Educated" events from the Texas Well Owner Network taking place in mid-June

Over 2.2 million Texas homes and businesses depend on septic systems, but these can cause human health and water quality problems if they aren’t working right. Read more to learn ways to find potential funding aid for repairing or replacing failing systems.

Water security in Texas depends on water quality monitoring. At Texas Water Resources Institute, watershed restoration projects require consistent water quality monitoring once every two weeks for two years. In the water security issue of txH₂O, the article How does water quality monitoring work? gives a behind-the-scenes look.

August is Water Quality Month, and we are sharing information from the Water Security issue of txH2O, How does water quality monitoring work?, an explainer on the process of watershed restoration.

Water quality monitoring on the Navasota River.